Re: Anyone ever used this service? Free prizes for playing WoW?

Aboo <jhemphill@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
No sir, not at all. Like I said, if you actually go to the website
and check it out you might see what I saw. I agree with you that on

That's not really relevant, because a website can say anything.

One thing jumped out at me. The vast majority of the games that are
listed in their supported list are single player games. No internet,
no long-on required for them. Just run the software from their

I don't think that matters. The point is, an application is being put onto
the PC, and from a source you have no reason to be confident in.

website, and play the games. Now, I know how to tell if a piece of
software is running on my computer or not, what it's sending over my
network and who it's sending too, what registry entries or files it's
accessing, editing or adding, etc... So that doesn't scare me all
that much.

That's provided it does things detected by current AV, or doesn't start
doing bad things at a later date after you've unblocked it.

They also posted a list of easily obtainable, sometimes freely
obtainable, well known, security software packages that have given
their software a pass, saying it's not a trojan, Malware, etc... Of

I don't think that's relevant either. AV programs work by detecting
behavior - who says the program ALWAYS acts bad? Also - generally speaking,
antivirus companies don't certify programs as safe - they mark them as
UNSAFE. Not being listed as unsafe doesn't make them safe.

course I don't believe that at face value. But if that is a lie, it's
so simple to prove a lie that it's kind of absurd to post it there,
isn't it?

Con artists love this thought process. It's how they do their thing.

Very very easy to verify. So why not at least attempt to
verify even part of what you believe, before bashing the software?

I will always bash any variation on "get paid to surf the net" type scheme,
because inherently they rip something off somewhere.

Just by looking at the site you can tell pretty easily that it's not a
one man show.

Oh, come on!

So if I have the time this weekend, I'm going to try it with a bunch
of the single player games on their list that I have. If it turns out
to be false information on the sites part and my registry loggers,
firewall and network monitors are throwing up red flags everywhere I
will come here and eat crow and apologize to you.

Knock yourself out. *
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* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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