Earlier I blogged that reports of Mindset Interactive’s demise were premature.
Some follow up research by Sunbelt researcher Patrick Jordan has pulled up some more:
From Idealproductgroup.com
Privacy policy for IdealGamebar says that it’s a division of Broadspring. Bingo.
(http://www.igamebar.com/privacy.htm)
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This is what the game bar looks like:
We are testing the toolbar watching for transmissions of data, but so far they only re-direct the user to Infospace when mistyping a URL. Also, the installation doesn’t show in Hijackthis as any register changes for the 404 page.
New sites:
Idealproductgroup.com
Idealgamebar.com
Idonatesearch.com
Idonatesearch.org
Idonatetoolbar.com
Idonatetoolbar.org
Igamebar.com
We are continuing to research this…
Alex Eckelberry