BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)

Subject: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:02 PM

Okay.....I guess I must be the last person on the planet to find these, but if I'm not, here's the info.

Comet Cursor is a quick change cursor gizmo with over 4000 images you can use for a cursor instead of the theme stuff or the "boring arrow." I found out about it over at the Weimaraner site I frequent and I now have a Weimie Cursor. Wife Karen tells me her lab even uses the things for seasonal stuff....they are just kinda' cute and the download hasn't taken over anything yet, so I'm having fun!

Michael loves all the Pokemon stuff and there are a couple of guitars, fiddle, and harp, along with some other musical stuff like clefs and things. If you want to give it a try it's The Comet Cursor Website.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: alison
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:17 PM

oh yay... I now have a little green lizard running over my screen..... the kids'll love this

thanks spaw

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: NicoleC
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:31 PM

Bear in mind that Comet Cursor got caught collecting data without their user's permissions. While the company insists they are only collecting info on cursors and not personal info (and by all reports, that's true), it wasn't exactly nice of the company to do so without notifying users.

My personal beef is that folks all over my office with win95 and Win98 have installed the program -- or rather, it installs itself if you aren't careful, particularly with the older version of RealPlayer -- and their machines tend to be plaqued by mysterious crashes and system resource lockups. I can't say for sure it's Comet Cursor, because I do a thorough cleaning when there's a problem found with a machine, but it does seem to be the common denominator.

So if your computer starts mysteriously acting up after installing it...

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:35 PM

SPYWARE!! DON'T DO IT!

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:37 PM

*sigh*...yep.."Comet Cursor" has a pretty bad reputation as using a fun thing to collect data...you decide.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 07:41 PM

here is a thread you can read from a newsgroup

about Comet cursor

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: mack/misophist
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:51 AM

Not just Spyware, archetypical spyware.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: Gypsy
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:10 AM

I bought a pommie cursor via ebay.........and got the other cutesy type ones same place.....on floppy. Would rather pay 5$ for it, than concern myself over a fabulous freebie

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 12:16 PM

I had it, I took it off. Supposedly it increases pop-up ads on your computer.

It is a fun little program, though. I had a violin cursor.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 03:52 PM

I had it and got rid of it, too. Had problems with pop-up and mysterious things just after I'd installed it. Once I got rid of it, problems went away.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: mike the knife
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 05:15 PM

gonna miss Jack Kerouac...

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 09:51 AM

How does spyware work? Comet has been fun but it has slowed down my macine.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: Mark Clark
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 11:23 AM

Check out the Spywareinfo Web site, home of the spyware weekly. They also have forums to discuss spyware—including Comet—and get help identifying and removing the stuff.

WebAttack.com is another site and one where you can download the Ad-Aware program to purge your system of spyware including Comet. You can also obtain the free Ad-Aware program from it's home site at The Lavasoft Corp. Ad-Aware will let you clean your PC free of charge. They also have a commercial product that runs in the background and keeps your computer from being infected in the first place.

Make no mistake, Comet is an infection.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 12:03 AM

Good Stuff!??????????????????

If I ever had any doubt you were an Idjet...Catspaw...this confirms it.

Sincerely,

Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Fun Cursors (Comet Cursor)
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 09:29 PM

Thankyou!! When I reformatted my 'puter a few months ago Comet Cursor was one of the bookmarks that got lost. I haven't had time since then to go looking for it. Cool stuff.