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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (35985)	8/22/2003 7:39:48 PM
From: jmedved	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

you say that you ran spybot again and found spyware. Fine - WHAT spyware? Did the spybot identify QuoteTracker as spyware? What about Ad-aware? What about any other program that detects spyware? The point is, Quotetracker gets the ads the exact same way that any browser does. It requests a URL and gets a GIF or an HTML ad. Thats it. If the ad is HTML ad (Flash, etc), then the HTML is displayed in an embedded IE browser. If your browser settings are set to low, then an advertiser can cause something to be installed (Like Gator, or Bonzi Buddy). However, that is NOT QuoteTracker specific - that would happen if you saw the advertisement on ANY site. We run ads from major networks. However, we explicitly block popups, and offensive advertising, INCLUDING Gator And Bonzi. Sometimes one may get in, but if we find it, we block it in the software, so even if the network is serving the ad, it will be ignored by QuoteTracker and never displayed. At NO TIME does QuoteTracker download any 3rd party apps. I don't have to take your word for it. I KNOW that it doesn't since I am one of the people that wrote the software. We state exactly what communication is occurring in our privacy policy (plain English, not legalese) and never deviate from that. You on the other hand have various suspicions, yet cannot back them up, and go on a public board slandering our product, even though its very simple to verify what is happening by just setting up something that shows you the communication. We even let you see everything that QT is doing by just hitting CTRL+SHIFT+F2 - you see all the HTTP calls that are made. QuoteTracker is no more Spyware than Opera, Netscape or IE. It is a highly customized browser as far as the internet traffic is concerned. Thats it.