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This is an alert regarding HunterSoft and the following names and email addresses:
Jacques Dubois
Jacques ZHANG
Duo ZHANG
Zhang Duo
Zhang Duo (kangfu2000@etang.com)
kangfu2000@etang.com (Jacques)
Jacques (kangfu2000@etang.com)
Jacques Dubois jacquesduo@hotmail.com
applyforjob@etang.com
jacques@mail.co.jpWebsite Plagiarism
HunterSoft copied Jermar Software Corp's WinDriversBackup web pages and used them on the Huntersoft site as WinDriver Expert pages.
see this Website Plagiarism thread: (alt.comp.shareware.authors - June 2003)
and this WinDriver Expert ripe off WinDriversBackup website?? thread: (alt.comp.freeware - June 2003)Program theft
HunterSoft ripped off of Mike Moniz's Unknown Devices program and offers it as Unknown Device Identifier on the Huntersoft site and on freeware/shareware distribution sites.
Unknown Devices is here:
The HunterSoft program - Unknown Device Identifier - is here:
Mike Moniz has posted information about the ripoff here:
and additional information here:
Major Geeks has information here
August 19, 2003 note: The thread appears to have been removed.Deceptive newsgroup posts
Huntersoft has posted comments about software products while concealing a vested interest. These posts did not merely omit pertinent information. They are intended to deceive.
see this Google link: posts by kangfu2000@etang.com
Copies of two of those posts: The first is a straightforward informational post. This is the only post that uses the "Zhang Duo" name. This second post is more typical in that "Jacques" fails to mention that he owns "WinDriver Expert" and http://www.zhangduo.com/ (Huntersoft).
From: Zhang Duo (kangfu2000@etang.com) Subject: mailx10?.zip - Send and receive emails via POP3 (Eng/Chin).Free Newsgroups: comp.archives.ms-windows.announce Date: 2000-09-19 20:10:30 PST I have uploaded to Simtel.Net: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/email/mailx10e.zip http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/email/mailx10c.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/email/mailx10e.zip 1145092 bytes ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/email/mailx10c.zip 1132412 bytes mailx10e.zip Send and receive emails via POP3, English.Free mailx10c.zip Send and receive emails via POP3, Chinese.Free Mail Expert v1.0 is a E-mail sending and receiving via POP3 protocol software. You can check, send, receive your E-mails without using your Web Browser (such as IE, Netscape). So it is fast. And you don't have to behold the troublesome Ads on the most dominant area of your screen. Both English and Chinese Edition are available. Special requirements: None. Freeware. Uploaded by the author. Zhang Duo, Fudan University kangfu2000@etang.com http://MailExpert.home.chinaren.com/ |
From: Jacques (kangfu2000@etang.com) Subject: Re: WinDriver Expert ripe off WinDriversBackup website?? Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware Date: 2003-06-10 18:00:00 PST Hi, guys, I have to say WinDriverBackup software produced by Jermar.com is a piece of trash !!! The software extracts the driver files incompletely. You might compare the number of extracted and backed up driver files, WinDriver Expert usually extracts and backs up more than WinDriverBackup, the trash ! I've put "WinDriver Expert" into my personal tool kit CD. However, when restore drivers, we don't have to pay Zhang Duo, Huntersoft, the registration fee $29.00. We might use the Hardware Wizard provided by Microsoft Windows Control Pannel to restore each drivers. All in all, a great utility, I love "WinDriver Expert". If I had more money, I would rather register the "My Drivers" for a change. Do you agree ? I don't know who copied who as far as web page is concerned. But I am sure that "WinDriver Expert" is the first driver backup utility that came to my mind. Jacques R.L" <ringomeinew(removehere)@hotmail(remove).com> wrote in message news:<Xns93948CB766D46ringomei@127.0.0.1>... > Hi, guys, > > WinDriverExpert (freeware) was down for a while and now up > again (with a seperate prof.version). > > However, the site seems to be a *copy* of the > WinDriverBackup's site (the format, the style, and some > content - look at the first few sentences of the site). > > Windriverbackup have been around for a while, when > WinDriverExpert gone shareware with no freeware version. > > > WinDriverBackup > http://www.jermar.com/wdrvbck.htm > > WinDriverExpert > http://www.zhangduo.com/driverbackup.html |
Deceptive emailHunterSoft attempted to redirect links to the HunterSoft site.
An email was sent to the Pricelessware link button requesting a change in the URL's for a program named WinDriver Expert. There is no such program but there is a program with a very similar name: WinDriversBackup.
As noted above HunterSoft copied WinDriversBackup web pages and used them on the Huntersoft site as WinDriver Expert pages.
A copy of the Huntersoft email:
Subject: WinDriver Expert v1.90 FREEWARE - Download links Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:38:26 +0000 From: "Jacques Dubois" <jacquesduo@hotmail.com> To: links@pricelessware.org Dear Sir, I found the software WinDriver Expert v1.70 on your website, however, after I searched the Internet, I found the updated version of the software, version 1.90. I found four download links to WinDriver Expert 1.90, http://www.zhangduo.com/drvexp19.zip http:/www.zhangduo.com/windriverexpert.zip http://www.zhangduo.com/WindriverExpert.zip http://www.zhangduo.com/drvexp.zip Best REgards, Jacque Dubois _________________________________________________________________ MSN Search, le moteur de recherche qui pense comme vous ! http://search.msn.fr/worldwide.asp |
