The most offensive software award, goes to Audio Galaxy

Audio Galaxy has now joined the ranks of those pillars of personal privacy, who are saying “Dahh, I didn’t know!”

Onflow, a company whose “Web Enhancing” software is widely distributed with most file sharing and other ad-sponsored programs, and installed with or without your permission, has included in it’s bundle a little gem called VX2.

VX2 serves pop-up ads that appear to be coming from the site you’re visiting, and as it does this is sends a report back to its home base. ‘Typical’ you might say, except for the fact that included in this report is any info you submitted in any on-line form. Web based Email, site log-ins, online purchases are all done using on-line forms.

By making itself a plug-in to your web browser, it can pass through a firewall unhindered, to deliver its package.

Maybe it’s just me, but this really can’t be legal! Can it?

Read the full story here:

http://www.poenews.com/inhouse/vx2.htm

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49960,00.html