Freeware Vendor's Web Tracking Draws Curses
D. Geller - November 29, 1999

Event Summary

Comet Systems Inc., a privately held company that gives away software that can convert your cursor into an animated shape of your choosing when you surf the Web, has been collecting information about where the estimated six to fourteen million users of the Comet Cursor point their browsers. The discovery was made by a private security consultant, Richard Smith, a founder of Phar Lap Software, who was also responsible for revealing security problems in Windows and for independently tracking down the Melissa virus...