Complaint Review: Alyon Technologies - Norcross Georgia

Clyde,

These people are organized criminals with no conscience, targeting ANYONE who happens to surf the Internet. They are specifically targeting children/teen sites with their 'nocreditcard' porn 'pop-ups'. This is a violation of COPPA Law, and MUST BE STOPPED. Write and call EVERY government agency you can about Alyon Technologies, Inc. This company has VICTIMIZED and TERRORIZED INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN HOMES.

They have ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED items to your computer. Search your computer for 'mini dialer and 'iedisco.exe' and delete them. They have created a folder called 'eGroup' -find and delete it. Alyon has also made changes to your Windows Registry. On Windows XP, most of the SPYWARE, (censored)WARE, HACKERWARE, POP-UP-WARE, DRIVE-BY-WARE items were found in the Microsoft subfolders. (See Rip-Off Report #45776 items found in Windows Registry.) There are many Rip-Off Reports with instructions on finding and deleting Alyon/eGroup's "POP-UP" and "DRIVE-BY" DOWNLOADS and INSTALLATIONS.

Norton Works classifies Alyon/eGroup's software as "Nuissanceware and Dialerware that takes advantage of flaws in the computer web browser."

This is what www.spywareguide.com has to say about Alyon/eGroup and their products:

Electronic Group: Be extremely careful viewing pages made by these people: many of their pages exploit IE security holes (particularly the Content-Disposition zero-byte-in-extension bug) to insert their certificates into your Trusted Publishers list, allowing them to install their programs AUTOMATICALLY.

E-group uses security holes in Internet Explorer for installing their software. Seems to have a secret relationship with alyon.net (Alyon should be their competitor, but Alyon has it's support pages on egwn.net)

Products by Alyon/eGroup:
Stripplayer and IEAccess/IEAccess2

eGroup Product: Stripplayer
Full Name: StripPlayer Websearch Type: Dialer Also Known as: strip-player StripSetup
Created by: Electronic Group
Danger Level: 3 Level 3: Minimal Threat
May profile users or broadcast data back to a server with ("opt-out") permission. Removal is hard.

Comment: Installed by ActiveX 'DRIVE-BY-DOWNLOAD' on porn related pages WHICH MIGHT BE OPENED BY "POP-UP ADVERTISING". Installation can happen "TOTALLY AUTOMATICALLY" on versions of Internet Explorer older than IE6 Service Pack 1, as a security hole is exploited to add the manufacturers, 'Electronic Group', to the list of publishers you trust, "ALLOWING THEM TO INSTALL ANY SOFTWARE THEY LIKE." The 'StripSetup' ActiveX control can be used on ANY PAGE, by ANY AUTHOR, to DOWNLOAD AND RUN ANY EXECUTABLE FILE. THERE ARE NO SECURITY CHECKS, WHATSOEVER.

Properties: Stays resident in background
Stealth: hides itself from user
Makes changes to browser settings

eGroup product:
Full Name: IEAccess: Websearch Type: Dialer Also Known as: IEAccess2 eGroup
Created by: Electronic Group
Danger Level: 4 Moderate Threat: Level 4
Nearly impossible to remove manually

Comment: Installed by ActiveX "DRIVE-BY-DOWNLOAD" on porn related pages WHICH MIGHT BE "OPENED" or "REDIRECTED TO" by "POP-UP ADVERTISING".

Properties
Stealth: hides itself from user
Makes changes to browser settings

More links about this company: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/IEAccess.html

For YOUR protection, first:

Write a Certified letter with RETURN RECEIPT to Alyon Technologies disputing the charges. This is very important because it establishes a record of your dispute. Also, call 201-865-7600 the number to Alyon in New Jersey and tell them that 'you deny all knowledge of anyone using their website'.

Then I recommend you do the following:

1. Go to Attorney General's website for your state and file a complaint.

2. Go to the Federal Trade Commission's web site and file a complaint. http://www.ftc.gov

3. File a complaint with the IFCCFBI
http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp

4. Submit a tip to: http://www.fbi.gov These criminals are advertising 'NOCREDITCARD' PORN on children/teen sites-violating COPPA Law.

5. Write a complaint to the Mayor of Norcross, Georgia [email protected] The mayors name is Lillian Webb. Norcross Website is
http://www.norcross-ga-gvt.com/

6. Write a complaint to the mayor of Secaucus, NJ Dennis Elwell [email protected]

7 Write National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
http://www.cybertipline.org
http://www.missingkids.com/cybertip/

8. Write a letter to Planning Commissions of Gwinnett County,
[email protected] (Lorraine Green)
[email protected]
[email protected]

9. File a complaint with AT&T since they may have helped switch your carrier without your consent (a slamming violation)

10. File complaint with http://www.fcc.gov
Federal Communication Commission
Email: [email protected]

11. File a complaint with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service if you suspect you are a victim of mail fraud. A bogus bill is fraud!
http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/ContactUs.htm

12. Contact WWOR TV
[email protected]
[email protected]

13. The Internet Fraud Watch Center 800-876-7060

14. Your State Senators and Representatives

15. Write a letter to The Whitehouse regarding Child Online safety. Refer to the President's speech. He made a great speech now it's time to have his help in going after Alyon Technologies.

16. File a Rip-off Report here at www.ripoffreport.com FBI and FTC and other agencies look at Rip-off Report.com. Rip-off Report puts these agancies in touch with victims who filed a Rip-off Reprot.

President Increases Federal Efforts to Promote Online Safety

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news
/releases/2002/10/print/20021023-8.html

Contacting the White House
The White House Mailing Address

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
The White House Phone Numbers

COMMENTS: 202-456-1111
SWITCHBOARD: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
TTY/TDD Phone Numbers (for the Hearing Impaired Only)

202-456-6213 Comment Line
202-456-2121 Visitors Office

White House E-Mail Addresses

President George W. Bush: [email protected]

Vice President Richard Cheney: [email protected]

Thank you, Ed Magedson, Editor Rip-Off Report and Gregory for you hard work in providing information.