Advertising Spyware: Brodcast DSSAGENTAdvertising Spyware. DSSAGENT. exe (Brodcast) by Broderbund. Background, What it. Advertising Spyware: DSSAGENT.exe (Brodcast) by Broderbund. Background, What it is I was first alerted to this suspicious-looking program by Mike of Voice Of The Public, which details the DSSAGENT app and several others on its. This entry has information about the startup entry named DSS that points to the dssagent.exe file. This program should not be allowed to start. Please visit this result for more detailed information about this program. Spyware:Win32/BrodcastDSSAGENT. Also detected as: not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Background (Kaspersky), DSSAgent (McAfee), W32/Background.A (Norman), Adware/DSSAgent (Panda. DSSAgent is a component that runs on startup of the PC. Once installed, DSSAgent slams your DNS server with continuous connections to www.brodcast.net. To safely & quickly detect DssAgent/Brodcast we highly recommend you run the malware scanner listed below. DSSAGENT.EXE: 12 2: dssagent.exe 159 Posted: March 2, 2006 | By SpywareRemove. Share: More. Rate this article. I was first alerted to this. Mike of Voice. Of The Public, which details the DSSAGENT app and several others on. DSSAGENT is a tool that lets software developers push a new splash. I think it's probably more centered around advertising : ( This program. Mattel. Interactive/Broderbund. I have also had a report of the module being installed. AOL 6. 0 and hammering the DNS server with "MILLIONS" of requests for. The idea behind. Brodcast was that the splash screen didn't have to be static and stay the. It could be changed when there was some. The. availability of new versions or related products or services could be made. Apparently, the view from the. I can tell you. what dssagent. DNS server with repeated and continuous calls for www. Needless. to say that Corporate security will be looking at this and other such software."Rik writes: "I am a network engineer. Last week, we noticed certain workstations. DNS servers with MILLIONS of requests for "www. As an example, in a 1. DNS and ICMP. (in order to find others like this crap).. DSSAGENT. would send over 1. DNS requests to our DNS.. Reports of the DSSAGENT using. CPU also appear fairly common. My attempts to access the. Connection Refused" error. ISP's proxy. This program has been reported by various sources. AOL password- stealing hack, PWSteal. I did manage to find an article. Salon, but it couldn't tell me anything useful or provide much in the. Note: According to Bruce. VDO Live Update also installs a file named dss. Agent. exe, which. Brodcast app. Installation controversy. As is often the case, a. PR stiffs tell. you it does and what its unwilling recipients say. Company PR claims that. DSSAGENT during install. User reports indicate that the agent is installed anyway, regardless of. Other users, and even the PR stiffs themselves, have. DSSAGENT is loaded onto the system regardless of the user's. Ed. note: This tells me that either (A) they're lying, or. B) they have some VERY lazy programmers. Having an installer conditionally. DSSAGENT being available.) For what it's worth. Infection method and. The program places a reference. Registry's Run key. Since most. apps only load via Registry if they have to load before other programs. I have a hard time trusting. Fortunately, Mattel has. DSSAGENT. utility. The program can also be removed manually by finding and deleting. DSSAgent. exe file on your computer (usually in C: \Windows) and removing. For anyone who's interested. DSS/query. SS. cgistage. DSS/query. SS. cgi. More. File. Monitor. DSSAGENT - Unlike some other spyware products that tamper with. Links. Privacy. Power! Reference. Slashdot. Salon. article (not too informative, unfortunately)Note: There is also a. DSS Agent" mentioned in a confusing, densely- worded Micro. Strategy. press release- -but while they share the name, I have the sneaking suspicion. DSSAGENT referred to by Micro. Strategy is completely unrelated. Brodcast" app."All trademarks are hereby. So don't even. THINK about suing me : ).
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