FREEBIE as Shown on TV Today

[PinkAngel-701]

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LOL Nope, im not kidding... and I just LOVE Freebies :D

Seen it on TV this afternoon, so I ordered one... "Nothing Personal"....LOL
Just 4 info: On the Coupon, you have to Download an ActiveX to get the Coupon printer, thats the Downside of that offer... But the FREE Flosser, is a Fill in the Blanks form right on site...


Rgds,
Sherri

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FREE Access Daily Flosser by Reach Toothbrush
http://www.samplereachaccess.com/

$1.00 Off Coupon- ** ONLY 4 PC Users, Sorry
http://www.reachaccess.com/reachaccess/offers.html

[seqrets]

No offense but, I would run both Adaware and Spybot to see if anything was placed upon your pc. Having to install an Active X app just to sign up for a free offer can't be good! Just be careful, some of the newer spyware/adware variants cannot be uninstalled through the above programs!

Hope that I'm wrong! :)

[Randall K. Majorhead]

That Flosser may have been a come on to see what you have or to record shopping web sites, ads clicked etc via a sneaky tracker, or even a registry change.

If you go to any online scanning program, like panda or symantec virus scans, they use an ActiveX program to scan your entire system. So that should give an idea of the depth it can go into your OS. It is also why there are several settings in IE security for ActiveX as it may end up being used in bad ways.
It can often be used to drop hard-to-find trackers.

So like Seqrets suggested, scan the crap out of your system and try a go0d deep online scan like: www.panda.com (http://www.panda.com)
and be sure and check the "Check for Heuristic trojans" box. Panda checks all files, even compressed ones.

I am hoping it is not so, but I have never heard of needing activeX or ANY download to signup at a give-away site.
It is almost ALWAYS used to do remote look see's at systems or run programs... So know real well who may be peeking.

Forms is all that is needed, and a shopping cart method is simple even for a newbie......

Randall

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Tks 4 the Info on that Guys.....

But the Only Active X thingy was for the Coupon... NOT the Offer in itself, that was from "Reach".... That "ActiveX" was from a site called: Coupons.com or something like that, came thru the "Reach" link for the Coupon seperately than the Flosser Link.

But N E who, I did do a Spybot S&D tonight & my McAfee scan, few hours after that "X" download and was ok... you think I still need a "Panda" scan or the like?
I did that Kapersky a couple nites ago and OMG, it took like 2 hours nearly AND I only have 3 gig's of 40 gig harddrive used here....

Tks....
Sherri

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[Randall K. Majorhead]

Whether you do a Panda scan depends mostly on if McAfee scans compressed files like zips and rar files.
Panda is also really fast, once you do it the first time.

The reason I try several scans if suspicious is due to some will read differently, or have slightly different variations on Virus/Trojan definitions in their heuristic scans and one could show a bad file where one other one may not.

But there is NO reason for an active-X to get a simple coupon. That doesn't make sense.
Sara works at Krogers and we get online coupons all the time for their and we have never needed any download, just a printer. Anyone can easily put a coupon online via scanner and be printable.

Just ALWAYS be really really sure on ANY download, especially for a $1.00 coupon.
Bet if I offered that Free Flosser site enough money, I could get a link from there and they would be soory then.
Some of those "official" sites are PR and paid hosting-and-made-website-for-a-fee services, not the real company.

Beware the Download.

May the Active X be with you, Jedi Pink Angel...
(Tell Darth Webvader to kiss my >>>)
In Peace, Randall K.
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