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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo
Deborah Radcliff, SecurityFocus 2003-09-19

Privacy advocates have joined the chorus of critics of Verisign's "SiteFinder," which on Monday began directing mistyped dot-com and dot-net e-mail and Web addresses to a search site operated by the company and Overture.com, a Pasadena, Calif.-based advertising company that brands itself as a search engine.

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Verisign is Spam!! You are not able to not use Sitefinder!! 2003-09-30
Jimmy
You are not able to not use sitefinder!! Get what I mean? It means that you HAVE to use its service, regardless of whether you accept or decline its "Terms of Service"(which there are no Accept or Decline buttons anyway.).

This means that Verisign is now the sole page that is directed to when you...

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