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Old 04-17-2004, 11:26 AM   #1
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Question A spyware/adware company attempting to lure unsuspecting Linux users?


I was searching for something in Google and saw a Ad for Penguin-Does, curious I followed the link to a most disturbing site. Well, let me let their first paragraph explain a little for you. "You are a Linux user who needs to use a Windows machine, but wants to use familiar, reliable, powerful Linux utilities, such as bash, grep, perl, find, sort, diff and others, without having to settle for ports that are often less functional or out-of-date than the Linux originals." eAnthology is VERY bad software and anything written by those folks should be avoided like the plague. Don't believe me, just check out this site http://www.bigclassaction.com/press_...404double.html

For those who would like to see this product for themselves... The site is http://www.penguin-does.com. Come to think about it, next to spam and viruses and security holes this is another one of the more disturbing things that just don't seem to die. Anyway, just a little item I thought the Linux community should know about.

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