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Topic: What is MRSPUTNIK User Agent ? (Read 6106 times)
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Joined: Mar 2008
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 Sep 07, 2008, 08:09:42 PM | #2 |
I think this is a custom build of Avant Browser (www.avantbrowser.com)
The FunWebProducts is most likely the genesis of the custom build. FunWebProducts is known as an adware and malware distributor :
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2003/1208web2.html
It turned out that FunWebProducts (see links below) is an operation of a company called IWon. Its software - a Web application - is essentially yet another piece of adware (often mistakenly called spyware although that is arguably a related subgenre).
FunWebProducts is notable because it acquired a large user population with remarkable speed. Iwon is responsible for a series of notorious adware products including IWon, iWon Co-Pilot, iWon Search Assistant, and MySearch/MyWeb.
The apparent reason for the surge in popularity is that the FunWebProducts code is built into a number of "free" products offered by the same company. These products include Smiley Central, PopSwatter, My Mail Signature, My Mail Stationery, My Mail Stamp, Cursor Mania - all but the last tool (which is a cursor chooser) are "enhancements" for e-mail. By dint of widespread advertising FunWebProducts has managed to sucker thousands of naïve end users into running its software.
So it might be some adware or malware app installed on your visitors browser that is tagging your site. |
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