To Phil N1KI and others,

Jon Bloom, KE3Z (lead for the ARRL's LoTW project) ask me to relay the
following note.

Dick, AA5VU

------ Forwarded Message
From: "Bloom, Jon, KE3Z"
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:04:34 -0400
Subject: LOTW contains spyware? on rec.radio.amateur.dx

The TrustedQSL software makes use of the "expat" library for parsing XML
documents (see: http://www.libexpat.org/). This library is used in a number of software projects, and
libexpat.dll is the Windows version of the library. It is not spyware by
the remotest stretch of the imagination. Clearly, Spysubtract is
confused.

I'd appreciate your relaying this info to wherever you see the rumor
circulating.

73, Jon

----- End of Forwarded Message


In article , (Phil)
wrote:

I downloaded and installed Spysubtract ( http://www.intermute.com ) last
night and ran an in-depth scan on my system. I received the following
notification:
" Cleaned libexpat.dll in c:\Program Files\TrustedQSL" . It listed this as
a browser hijacker in the TrustedQSL portion of the LOTW beta software I had
installed earlier. Is the ARRL loading our computers with spyware now?

Spammers - reply freely and often to my e-mail address
The rest of you - look me up on qrz.com - N1KI