early saturday morning we were chatting in the msn main lobby and who should we happen to see in there too? why claire of course. being the curious chatters that we are we just had to view her profile and imagine our surprise to discover that this msn host is allowed to spamvertise her outwar link directly from her msn member directory public profile and while hosting.
so whats outwar you ask? well according to this excerpt about outwar from wikipedia: "Outwar is a free online role-playing game which gives people the chance to create a character (a monster, gangster or popstar) and then gain power (usually by getting other people to visit a "secret link")."( ...) " Outwar's secret link phenomenon has gained it a very bad reputation. Players of Outwar will oftentimes go to forums and try to trick people into clicking their secret link. Some forums, including those of Winamp.com, have made Outwar into a banned word, so that people would not be able to link to it.To overcome this, users will often create a page which redirects to their Outwar page. It is also commonly seen in AIM chat rooms by bots, posing as links to pornography. Due to this, it is common procedure to use a Windows HOSTS file to block the website, in order to prevent the player from gaining EXP points.
On the Outwar site they provide examples of how to trick people into viewing an Outwar website, such as, a 'Meta Refresh' tag in HTML and entering a 'link' in a instant messenger chat and making it look like it is a different website."
outwar is so bad that spywareguide.com has a section on outwar where they give a list of adware removal tools. heres spywareguide.com's outwar.com Official Description: Adware: Program that creates advertisments on your Pc.
Note that many websites have their own advertising, unrelated to adware.
Adware is any software application in which advertising is displayed while the program is running. The authors of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads, which can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen and sometimes through text links or in search results. Adware may or may not track personal information.
you know we here at blogging msn chat are aware that outstart.com/participate systems as well as microsoft corporate monitor our little blog roll so we just have to ask: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
anyway we blogged claire's hosting foray saturday morning. at first claire was "chatting" in the main lobby she wasnt hosting this must be to stir up chatters attention to her profile so she can get those clicks then claire began to host some excerpts include:
AngelsFall20 : ?????????, please settle down.
8mick714211 has left the conversation.
Host AngelsFall20 kicked ѕсєиєѕтєя out of the chat room: Disruptive behavior
(oh yeah we loved it how she gives a warning then immediately kicks the chatter)
Jáde™ : well that wasnt very nice
ItZaMeFine : so nice to talk to you all
8ѕсєиєѕтєя has joined the conversation.
AngelsFall20 : Welcome Back.
ѕсєиєѕтєя : Claire 8o|
Jáde™ : i was trying to say dont press alt-f4
AngelsFall20 : You asked for it, i gave it to you.
(claire loves "giving it" to the chatters)
AngelsFall20 : ({)Thank You For Picking MSN Chats(}).. I Will Be Leaving This Chat Room. If you need assistance, please don’t forget the HelpDesk is available for you (http://g.msn.com/3CHENUS/3_6630_13?rm=helpdesk)!
(robo claire)
view claires hosting and chat log in .doc form here: http://www.freewebs.com/bloggingmsnchat/
oh btw heres a screen shot of angelsfall20 parked in chat boston2 while shes supposed to be "hosting" the lobby.
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