Just received a couple of such E-mails, I'm working in a european ISP and I thought it could interest some of you. I don't use this program ( www.ftppro.com ) myself, but it looks like this company finds normal to have "trojan-like" features in their program, not only are they spamming a nationwide ISP with crap like this (I don't care if my customers don't pay their licenses !) but they also submitted me with a valid login in each of their emails, logins that were entered into the FTP program by our customers. So I guess the program sends login information (at least login, ftp server target and source IP, possibly password as well) to a central site or something. Reverse engineer the program if you do care. ;) And as for the legal arguments in this crap, the world != the US and all of this junk has no meaning whatsoever in 99% of the world. -- --< Cedric "Ced" Amand >--< cedric.amandat_private >-- --< http://cedric.net/ >--< Data Security Manager SKYNET >-- This is a forwarded message from FTPProat_private about Important matter for your abuse department ===8<==============Original message text=============== From: FTPPro <FTPProat_private> Subject: Important matter for your abuse department To: skynet.be re: Your FTP Address:<CENSORED> Abuser's Username (on your FTP Site): <CENSORED> Abuser's Hostname (on their local computer): <CENSORED> The above-mentioned user has been using an unauthorized copy of our product, FTPPro, for the purpose of transferring files via FTP to your server. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, it is illegal for you to provide internet access to anyone who uses that access to infringe upon copyrighted material. Your failure to comply with the Copyright Act shall represent a violation of Federal Law. To protect our program from this abuse, FTPPro requires that every User accepts the terms of our User Agreement before using FTPPro. Our User Agreement indicates that we will send a message to the Server which is accessed by any unauthorized user, to inform them of this abuse. In addition to the Username and Hostname shown at the beginning of this letter, we have also received additional information which uniquely identifies this unauthorized user. This person has submitted numerous unauthorized serial numbers to our server. This action has caused damage to our business, as records for our authorized users have been overwritten. This person could not have run FTPPro without having first accepted the terms of our User Agreement, which includes the following provision: By submitting falsified registration information, or maliciously attempting to use FTPPro after the evaluation period has expired, the user shall immediately be obligated to pay the Registration Fee of $95.00. This user is therefore obligated to immediately mail a money order for $95.00 to: Sabine Consulting PO Box 5296 Playa Del Rey, CA 90296 If we do not receive this user's money order within 7 (seven) days, then we shall act as follows: 1. FTPPro is a copyrighted program. There are numerous notices throughout the program which indicate that unauthorized usage of FTPPro is a violation of Federal Copyright Law. The appropriate federal authorities shall be informed of this user's violation of the Federal Copyright Law. 2. This user was fully aware that their unauthorized usage of FTPPro would cause falsified credit card information to be transmitted over the internet. The appropriate federal authorities shall be informed of this user's violation of the Interstate Commerce Law. ---------------------------------------------------- We do not wish to receive any apologies or excuses from this user. The terms contained within the FTPPro User Agreement are written in plain English. Receipt of this user's money order shall indicate compliance with the terms contained within the FTPPro User Agreement. Thank you, Sabine Schmidt Sabine Consulting Sabineat_private ===8<===========End of original message text===========
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