P2P marketing … a salon article about how marketers are snooping napster users hardrives in order to send IMs with promotional URLs

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One Comment to “hardrive marketing on napster”

  1. cris | March 30th, 2003 at 12:03 pm

    I am a tech that seeS callS about aol/
    gator and such on such a reg basis that
    we dont even support the removal of these
    HORRID prgms KILL THESE [gator]–> GMT, CMESYS
    ,TGCMD SAVE,[msn spywareLOAD QM ] And also the horrid hotbar—> hbinst,hb….,
    FRM Chris@ SBC Tech support/ keep one eye open ;) Tip:never try to “uninstall”
    aol | netscape | gator | from and and remove prgms . they just rename themselves and burrow further in the drive.