That doesn't seem to be true at all Anthony. In fact the Czech Republic is the 19th highest priced nation in a list of 23.
Please see the attached file.


From here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/30/nbroad130.xml

This is interesting, in a spectacularly offensive fashion (link is safe). Is this something you can do something about?

I have an update:
1. New version of EULA was implemented yesterday, as I promised. You can check.
2. New 'easy-to-use' uninstallers are ready and will be online tomorrow. Everything will be easily removable from Control Panel.
3. Website and contact e-mail will be ready on weekend.

My point is, if you were really looking for the cheapest place to host your porn site it wouldn't be in the Czech Republic. However, if your looking for a place that child porn is legal to possess that is the Czech Republic. It is illegal to distribute it. But, no one is going to nail you on that very easily because your hiding behind Privacy Protection.org.

You admit the site is yours, and we all know your distributing Zlob. Why not grab that extra bit of the market to infect with a bit of child porn?

What difference does it make for me? Are you for real? Is that your way of saying I should shut up? Tough luck ain't gonna happen.

The difference it makes for me is I would like to see all pedophiles and those that enable go straight to hell in a handbasket.

I have lost track of of how many infected machines I have helped clean up with Zlob. The story is almost always the same, the victim was alerted they needed to download something in order to view a video.

The point is Anthony your not telling the truth.

I am operating with facts! If you think I am going to click one of your links your crazy. You shouldn't even be posting that crap here.
I'm not going to argue with you either. There is no point.

From http://www.czech.cz/en/news/domestic-news/possession-of-child-pornography-to-be-criminal-offence/

(emphasis added)

_________________
MS MVP Security 2006-2008

I think it is very interesting that the takedown effort has resulted in the perpetrators coming here to haggle for some semblance of legitimacy. "We'll change this, we'll change that." But they had no scruples about using their previous tactics until their money-making scheme was at risk.

Ignore him and keep up the pressure, that's what I say. Love of money is the root of all evil, says the big JC, and maybe He's right.

Anthony do you approve of spamming by your 'affiliates'?
There is alot of forum and comment spamming that ultimately
directs to your software.

For example: (extreme porn warning!)
http://www.elmslieschool.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=11902&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
These links direct to:
http://porn0site.org/
for example: http://porn0site.org/hardcore-porn
this redirects to:
http://www.selectpornvids.com
which redirects to:
http://www.hugevideoszone.com/index.php?id=1859&style=black
which links to:
http://www.freeporn-mpegs.com/mr/mixed/s3g5/movie2.php?id=1859
which installs your software:
http://www.videoactivexsetup.com/download.php?id=1859

This is only one example of the extreme amount of forum spam, comment spam and site hijackings that are out there.
This behavior is in widespread use by your 'affiliates'.
As long as this continues, there can be no favorable view of your affiliates and your software.
And as Suzi said, it is not our job to police your affiliates.

Another example is here: (warning porn)
http://www.elmslieschool.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=11777
which links to:
http://adds1.trafflow.com/a6.html
which installs your software from:
http://www.videoactivexsetup.com/download.php?id=1214

Now, I'd like to address the method in which your software is installed in the browser.

No description, details or User agreement is given on the install pages. This is unacceptable. There must be disclosure about the full details of this software before users can make an informed decision about downloading it.

These are screenshots taken from: http://todaysfreevideo.com/movies/teen/movie1.php?id=1214

Screenshot 1:
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3650/zlobpopup1zo6.jpg

Along with these popups being misleading, there is no way to stop these popups, unless you click OK. This is extremely annoying. The download is also automatically started.

Screenshots 2,3,4,5:
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/543/zlobpopup2se0.jpg
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/51/zlobpopup3fi5.jpg
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7796/zlobautodownloadht8.jpg
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1607/zlobpopup4ho2.jpg

Your installer still does not provide proper disclosure.
The FTC has determined that disclosure must be given in this way:
"clear and prominent disclosure of material terms prior to and separate from any end user license agreement."
Link here:
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0523130/0523130analysis061103.pdf#page=3

Your setup program has a single screen which only provides info via
the License Agreement. This is not enough, see above.
The checkbox for "I accept" is automatically checked.
Screenshot:
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3513/installscreenok2.jpg


Why does the software name in the installer change?
This time it is Video AX Object, before it was something else.
I have also not heard a good reason for why new domains are registered
all the time and old ones removed. This is always very suspicious behavior.

The only thing that has changed about your software is a few things
in the license agreement, and nothing that makes any major difference.


Your software still installs about 6 things into the Add/Remove programs, some of which have misleading names.
(Security Plugin, Messenger Service sound like legitimate items)
The uninstaller for Video Ax Object only uninstalls one thing and none of the other ones.
Some of the things require a reboot to uninstall them, and even then they may not be uninstalled. This is obviously a suspicious tactic designed to keep people from uninstalling. Who wants to reboot for each single item they want to un-install?

There needs to be a way to uninstall everything with one uninstaller and one entry in the Control Panel.

Proof:
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/413/uninstallbssa7.jpg


I don't even need to go into all the bad things that happen to a persons
computer once they install your software, it speaks for itself.

Unwanted rogue security software with false positives, that detects your software as bad:
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3999/falsepositiveskt9.jpg

Computer hijacked:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4667/hijackedmi4.jpg

IE Hijacked and a fake 404 not found error:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5985/iehijackedhs7.jpg

System tray hijacking, with a false alerts:
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8195/moresystemtraybsio7.jpg

Until all of these concerns are addressed I have nothing good to say.
It seems like the only point of your software is the hijacking and goading the user into buying fake security software.

Hello. I'm posting anonymous (with a throw-away e-mail address and through Tor), so don't even try to find me.

To keep the discussion very technical:

• It is very clever to only admit to sites which are currently down, however I do have a very extensive history of these files. Do you or do you not admit to having a file available at the url hxxp://www.axvideosetup.com/download.php?id=1862 with a size of 70704 bytes with MD5 hash 8b440b43ea74c54ba676b34a21051d82, and with SHA1 hash e52622c2e2866e1034ae44552e535871fb4e14a4 at the date of 12th of Jul 2007? (hint: if you're not, you're lying)
  
• In the EULA (if you can call it that) of the mentioned installer you say that "Components bundled with our software may report to Licensor and/or its affiliates status of the installation of certain marketing modules and also generalized installation information, such as language preference and operating system version, to assist Licensor in its product development. N
  o personal information will be communicated to Licensor or its affiliates during this process." (emphasis added). Fact: the included software checks a long list of adult related sites (listed below) to see if the user visited any of them (which I would assume doesn't qualify as language preference or OS version). Do you admit this?
  
• The strings in the executable are encrypted (albeit poorly). Why are you trying to hide them? Also, an interesting fact: the encryption used is very similar to the one employed by the recent Storm worm, suggesting that there might be a link between these two malware!
  
• Fact: most antiviruses put the installers you admitted to and the ones you wouldn't admit to (when you say "we don't use the word 'codec'") in the same family, which means that there are very strong resemblances between them. Having this in mind your argument is on very shaky grounds to say the least.
  
• Fact: the program in the install kit tries to detect the presence of VMWare (a virtual machine used by many malware researchers) and avoids executing its payload if it's detected. How can you explain this other than saying that you wish to make the analysis of you binary my malware researchers harder? (Hint: you can't!)