I work for Friend Finder Networks the owner of adultfriendfinder.com. We have had dozens of complaints from customers that the 4/8/2009 update blocks adultfriendfinder.com.
(Yes, we are an adult site but we do have 32 million members worldwide)
I work for Friend Finder Networks the owner of adultfriendfinder.com. We have had dozens of complaints from customers that the 4/8/2009 update blocks adultfriendfinder.com.
(Yes, we are an adult site but we do have 32 million members worldwide)
I would also like to report that the latest immunization has added another Friend Finder Networks site, Cams.com, as a blacklisted site.Originally Posted by aprevite
The SDHelper.log file shows the following entries:
Blocked HTTP://WWW.ADULTFRIENDFINDER.COM/: Win32.Agent.lta (Blacklisted URL)
Blocked HTTP://WWW.CAMS.COM/: Win32.Agent.lta (Blacklisted URL)
I work on cams.com for 3 years.Please dont block it!!!!!!!!!!
I like Spybot very much and dont want to use other programm!
I am shocked to see someone whom clearly is representing Spybot Search & Destroy say something as stupid as "well it seems internet is for porn." Clearly this is a personal opinion and has no place being posted by a Spybot official; not to mention the implication that Adult FriendFinder is a porn site which is just flat out wrong. Just because something is Adult in nature doesn't make it porn, but thank you for sharing your unwanted narrow-minded viewpoint.
I for one would really like to hear WHY the sites AdultFriendFinder.com and Cams.com were blacklisted in the first place since neither site installs any spyware, adware or any other kind of software. Is Spybot changing from my favorite anti-spyware product to a useless anti-WhatYouThinkIsPorn piece of crap?
Last edited by KennerLAN; 2009-04-14 at 15:17.
I am sorry, that was indeed unprofessional.
Adultfriendfinder is of course not a porn site, it is fare worse since it is pestering people with its advertising. This kind of advertising is however not always targeted, which means that it can be presented to anyone.
But this is not the reason why these sites were added to the black list.
The reason is more human: An error.
Thank you for your response Yodama. I would assume that, since there is admission of human error, Spybot will take the appropriate action to have adultfriendfinder.com and cams.com removed from their black list? If so, when can we expect the changes to take affect?
I would also add a note that the perception of these sites "pestering people with its advertising" is absolutely unfounded and seems to be more of a personal opinion than a fact. As with most websites, there are advertising banners which is not uncommon in the industry. You will find advertising on yahoo, myspace and facebook just to name a few. You will actually be hard pressed to find any social networking that does not use any advertisements on their site.
Again... Thank you for your assistance and looking into this matter.
Hello Yodama and Spybot team. I wanted to reiterate our thanks for looking into this matter and send my apologies for expressing my own personal opinions about advertising in my previous post.
Thanks for looking into it.
As far as the advertisements pestering people. Actually I'd probably agree with that. While I've never had anything harmful happen to my computer or be installed on my computer as a result of the friendfinder.com network, I'm not going to say they are innocent. While I don't experience a lot of popups from them as some people have complained of, the popups I have seen are sometimes just obnoxious and invasive. I have no love for the support staff there either that seem more interested in allowing scams than anything else.
I'd be completely happy if the site was blocked on Spybot as long as there was an option of unblocking sites that people still wanted to associate with. That way it would protect people who had no interest in the site and still allow others to visit if they wished.
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