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Standard Internet may not own Hotbar, but, they knowingly provide the avenue for this program to be installed.
Further, the other exploit I mentioned above, stopannoyingpopus installed winpup32.exe on the surfer's computer. A couple of months back, Ron stated that this company was simply sold ad space through Standard Internet. Even if this was the case, SI was once again providing the avenue for installation of the trojan. But, this was not the case. After a complaint was lodged regarding the improper whois information for stopannoyingpopus and the registered company, invinc...lo and behold, the whois info was updated to reflect the proper ownership, Standard Internet.
Stopannoyingpopus has this week been redirected to historykill...a real popup killer...but, when this exploit was originally revealed by me a few weeks back, the program was simply a cover for winpup32.exe. I had an IT acquantence, the director of the IT department of a large company, recreate and document the exploit at that time. 12Clicks was doing his usual threats, so it seemed in my best interest to insure that I had independent documentation of my alleged claims.
Further, there are numerous independent tech reports on the web which have clearly established a link between stoppannoyingpopups and other SI real estate and numerous adware, spyware trojans.
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