Re: [cobalt-users] Stop eZula from stealing bandwidth

[Carrie Bartkowiak <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

You might try searching around on About.com's site and it's 
co-conspirator, Spedia.Net (and filemix.com/surfplus), using the 
"EasyLink" and "SurfPlus" ad-spam link thingee you're talking about. 
(It goes under so many names you'd think it was a con system...)
There's a way to uninstall the program - but only from the command 
line, it's not listed in the Control Panel ->Add/Remove Software nor 
is there an uninstall file included with it. 

The instructions to remove this trash are below, I can't find 
anything about blocking the software or preventing it from making 
advertisements out of our pages; but you might be able to find 
something that I missed.
In any order, a very firm letter to all of the involved companies 
protesting the use of your content as ad-generating or 
lead-generating revenue for them would probably be in order. They 
are, in essence, capitalizing off of YOUR copyrighted material 
(assuming you've copyrighted your pages).

Select the Start Menu 
Choose the Run command from the menu 
Type in surfplus.exe /u and hit the O.K. button 
Answer 'Yes' to the question that pops up 
After you uninstall Surf+, please close all the IE windows. 

--
CarrieB
Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?