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From: Craig on 1 Feb 2010 19:36
On 02/01/2010 04:29 PM, Bear Bottoms wrote:
> Bear Bottoms<bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9D12BA37A9C7Ebearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net:
>
>> Phoo phoo .NET all you want, show me a better free driver program that
>> analyzes, collects the new drivers and offers as clean and simple
>> interface to install them.
>>
>
> Who these folks are is a mystery at this point. The "About Us" link
> fails. The "Contact Us" is a simple form. The home and features button
> don't have links as the home page and features are all on the same page,
> but the menu items are there.
>
> The current version 1.0.1 lists a release date of 2010.1.28 on the site,
> yet the program "about" link lists 1.0.1.26799. It's free for personal
> use only. The "help" button links back to it's website page. No other
> information available.
>

A little too mysterious at this point for me:

> Administrative Contact:
> Private, Registration DRIVEREASY.COM(a)domainsbyproxy.com
> Domains by Proxy, Inc.
> DomainsByProxy.com

fwiw,
--
-Craig
From: Susan Bugher on 1 Feb 2010 20:16
Craig wrote:
> On 02/01/2010 04:29 PM, Bear Bottoms wrote:
>> Bear Bottoms<bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in
>> news:Xns9D12BA37A9C7Ebearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net:

>> Who these folks are is a mystery at this point. The "About Us" link
>> fails. The "Contact Us" is a simple form. The home and features button
>> don't have links as the home page and features are all on the same page,
>> but the menu items are there.
>>
>> The current version 1.0.1 lists a release date of 2010.1.28 on the site,
>> yet the program "about" link lists 1.0.1.26799. It's free for personal
>> use only. The "help" button links back to it's website page. No other
>> information available.

> A little too mysterious at this point for me:
>
>> Administrative Contact:
>> Private, Registration DRIVEREASY.COM(a)domainsbyproxy.com
>> Domains by Proxy, Inc.
>> DomainsByProxy.com

http://download.cnet.com/windows/easiware/3260-20_4-10073266.html
a few quotes:
EASIWARE was build up on 2009, we have 3 team member, 1 developer, 1 use
support & 1 project manager. We are mainly focus on develop easy-to-use
tools that could resolve computer issue, and our use just need several
click to fix their computer problem.

Web site: http://www.drivereasy.com
products from EASIWARE
DriverEasy
http://download.cnet.com/DriverEasy/3000-18513_4-75090748.html
</q>

dunno if they're connected to these folks or not. . .
http://www.easiware.fr/
a company profile is shown here:
<http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:MsLwLDrsyIsJ:www.linkedin.com/companies/easiware+EASIWARE&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>


Susan
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From: Craig on 1 Feb 2010 20:35
On 02/01/2010 05:16 PM, Susan Bugher wrote:
>
> dunno if they're connected to these folks or not. . .
> http://www.easiware.fr/
> a company profile is shown here:
> <http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:MsLwLDrsyIsJ:www.linkedin.com/companies/easiware+EASIWARE&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>
>

I'd guess not. Easiware.fr develops & sells a CRM. No utilities on
their site from what I could find.

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-Craig
From: VanguardLH on 1 Feb 2010 21:22
Craig wrote:

> On 02/01/2010 04:29 PM, Bear Bottoms wrote:
>> Bear Bottoms<bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in
>> news:Xns9D12BA37A9C7Ebearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net:
>>
>>> Phoo phoo .NET all you want, show me a better free driver program that
>>> analyzes, collects the new drivers and offers as clean and simple
>>> interface to install them.
>>>
>>
>> Who these folks are is a mystery at this point. The "About Us" link
>> fails. The "Contact Us" is a simple form. The home and features button
>> don't have links as the home page and features are all on the same page,
>> but the menu items are there.
>>
>> The current version 1.0.1 lists a release date of 2010.1.28 on the site,
>> yet the program "about" link lists 1.0.1.26799. It's free for personal
>> use only. The "help" button links back to it's website page. No other
>> information available.
>>
>
> A little too mysterious at this point for me:
>
>> Administrative Contact:
>> Private, Registration DRIVEREASY.COM(a)domainsbyproxy.com
>> Domains by Proxy, Inc.
>> DomainsByProxy.com
>
> fwiw,

That's GoDaddy's privatization domain service. Several registrars have this
because they get to charge more to the customer who feels they have to hide.
ICANN requires that the responsible party for a domain be listed in its
registration data, so the registrars pretend they take responsibility so
they can list themselves. These registrars enjoy the added income from
paranoid domain registrants. They'll hide the registrant's info; however,
they won't protect it if pushed.

Often the excuse I get from those that hide behind private registrations is
that they don't want to get spammed by exposing their true e-mail address in
their domain's registration that anyone can lookup. Yeah, right. If they
want to pretend that they are so stupid that they cannot dedicate an e-mail
account (which can be a free one) to just that domain registrar and use a
rule to auto-delete any e-mails that don't originate from that registrar's
domain then perhaps they are also too stupid for you to care about any
software that they proffer. It is a pretense they use as an excuse for
hiding their domain registration, and the real reason is something else.

When I see an author is hiding, a big red flag gets attached to that
program. One flag might not be enough but it doesn't take but a couple to
decide to find something else.

www.drivereasy.com - Registrant hides behind GoDaddy's private service
nslookup www.drivereasy.com
returns
174.36.80.153

nslookup 174.36.80.153
returns
lotusfans.com
This site's registrant is listed in China

A traceroute on www.drivereasy.com also takes you to the Chinese
lotusfans.com site.

When you visit (and translate) the lotusfans.com site, apparently it is a
forum for Lotus users. Why would a forum for Lotus devotees be hosting a
site for unrelated software?

You have a domain registrant that wants to hide from the users but wants
them to install software that scans their host to send back "data" to their
servers and installs kernel-mode software from them (not from the hardware
manufacturers) which is hosted by a Chinese forum that discusses Lotus
software who uses a webhosting service (verio-hosting.com) whose domain
registration says they are in Colorada, USA but lists their contacts in
Florida, USA and who uses an ISP (Softlayer) in Texas, USA who actually owns
the leased IP address.

Not any one point is necessarily bad. It's when taken altogether along with
the nature of the software (drivers) that has me deciding that I'd never
bother with this software. It's obviously not critical software in the
first place since once you install the drivers for your hardware, and
because that hardware doesn't mutate over time, then there is often little
need to be updating drivers. Users come up with lots of reasons they think
they need a new driver version but when push comes to shove they haven't a
clue if they need the new version or if it solves more problems than it
causes. It's new and that's why they want it. The same stupidity is seen
with users that flash the BIOS to a new version without any rationale
objective (i.e., it's new but they don't know why they need it or if they
need it). You get users that want to play the role of a brain surgeon with
the bare skills needed to play the Hasbro "Operation" doctor game. When you
ask the typical user why they updated their driver and tell them that "new"
is not a valid reason, they don't know.
From: za kAT on 2 Feb 2010 06:16
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:22:30 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

> www.drivereasy.com - Registrant hides behind GoDaddy's private service
> nslookup www.drivereasy.com
> returns
> 174.36.80.153
>
> nslookup 174.36.80.153
> returns
> lotusfans.com
> This site's registrant is listed in China
>
> A traceroute on www.drivereasy.com also takes you to the Chinese
> lotusfans.com site.
>
> When you visit (and translate) the lotusfans.com site, apparently it is a
> forum for Lotus users. Why would a forum for Lotus devotees be hosting a
> site for unrelated software?
>
> You have a domain registrant that wants to hide from the users but wants
> them to install software that scans their host to send back "data" to their
> servers and installs kernel-mode software from them (not from the hardware
> manufacturers) which is hosted by a Chinese forum that discusses Lotus
> software who uses a webhosting service (verio-hosting.com) whose domain
> registration says they are in Colorada, USA but lists their contacts in
> Florida, USA and who uses an ISP (Softlayer) in Texas, USA who actually owns
> the leased IP address.

Hmmm

There is a driverseasy.com and a drivereasy.com

They both use a distributed professional hosting service
http://softlayer.com/. The IP addresses are probably virtual and redirect
to the nearest or most available physical, or probably virtual server on a
physical server.

I'm not sure drivereasy has anything to do with lotusfans, they may just
share the virtual IP with a number of sites and lotusfans has just
registered reverse lookup

The two sites driverseasy.com and a drivereasy.com look different

but look at the result of nslookup

> drivereasy.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: fe80::b5c5:b2ad:b888:a1dd

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: drivereasy.com
Address: 174.36.80.153

> driverseasy.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: fe80::b5c5:b2ad:b888:a1dd

Name: driverseasy.com
Address: 174.36.80.152

driverseasy is part of Blitware

http://blitware.com/

"Blitware (or Blitware Technology Inc., to be precise) is a small Canadian
software vendor from Victoria, BC, Canada. Blitware's mission is to take
great software products to market. We're always looking for new niches to
fill."

Dunno... :) Interesting, but I need to make a living... Toodles

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