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	MIVA Means Business.
		Comet Systems became widely known in the late 1990's for the Comet Cursor, an innovative personalization product that allows Internet users to download software onto their desktops so that they can choose their cursor image.
		Comet is based in New York City, and launched the Comet Cursor in 1998.
		Comet's 2003 net loss included charges of approximately $1.5 million related to vacated office space and approximately $150,000 related to the amortization of deferred stock-based compensation.
	www.miva.com /us/content/about/pressroom/pressreleases/pressrelease.asp?page=022304 (1299 words)

	IntelliQuest.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		This space constriction means that the cursor is not well used as a medium to communicate a message or attempt to change perceptions for the sponsoring brand-messages are better communicated in the banner advertisements to which the cursor is linked.
		The COMET Cursor was also somewhat effective in generating increases in prompted brand awareness, an especially difficult task considering the established nature of the tested categories.
		The COMET Cursor-enabled advertisement for Pepcid AC generated a significant lift in intent to purchase and both executions received increased clickthroughs as a result of the COMET Cursor.
	www.intelliquest.com /resources/reports/mbi_report06.asp (4664 words)

	IBM - ARC - USER - Comet Cursor Settings
		The Comet Cursor tail is made up of circular images drawn behind the pointer as it moves across the screen.
		Comet Color - Both the fill and border colors can be set to any of 17 possibilities: the standard 16 VGA colors plus an option of Invert for the color and Clear for the border.
		Comets stop appearing when the pointer is over a seamless windows application and do not appear in full-screen windows.
	www.almaden.ibm.com /cs/user/comet/cometpan.html (318 words)

	SLI Systems - Case Study - Comet Web Search
		Comet Systems founder and chairman Jamie Rosen was seeking more helpful search technology to support his company's 10 million users.
		Comet Systems is the developer of the Comet Cursor, a free cursor utility that tens of millions of people have downloaded.
		Comet Cursor is a channel for the sale of pay-per-click advertising, with key clients like Overture (formerly GoTo) that supply content containing pay-per-click advertising.
	www.sli-systems.com /cs-comet.shtml (647 words)

	Comet Cursor
		The allegations of comet cursor being spyware is grossly incorrect.
		Comet cursor has been harassed and targeted long enough, its time to let well enough alone and to let potential applicants have the freedom to use this service without fear of being ridiculed.
		Those sites that use comet cursor should state so on their index page and give some kind of indication where they are located so that we the web surfers have the option to not go to those pages.
	www.sundancr.com /cursor.shtml (393 words)

	$@#^%#^&#%%#^ COMET CURSOR - TechIMO Forums
		Comet Cursor is know spyware, and if I recall correctly, it can install itself without the users permission if the browser's ActiveX security settings allow your computer to automatically download ActiveX controls.
		I last got nailed by Comet Cursor in July when I was experimenting with my IE security setting and clicked on a seemingly harmless link in a Google search.
		The Comet Cursor uninstall option works fairly well, but even after uninstalling it, the AdAware spyware removal program still found 3 files that were related to the Comet spyware program.
	www.techimo.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8065 (250 words)

	Business Wire: Comet Systems Announces Launch of Comet Cursor. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Comet Systems, Inc. announced today that it has launched the Comet Cursor, its patent-pending technology that allows Web sites to replace the conventional "arrow" cursor with any graphic or animation.
		The Comet Cursor software is roughly 25K in size and download time for it is under 10 seconds on a typical 28.8 modem.
		Comet Systems, Inc. (http://www.cometsystems.com) is the inventor of the Comet Cursor, a patent-pending technology which allows any Web site to display a graphic or animation of its choice in place of the traditional "arrow" cursor on a Web browser.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:50255927&refid=holomed_1 (852 words)

	Comet Systems: Best Marketing Technology Brandweek - Find Articles
		Not only has Comet laid claim to the 32-by-32 pixel arrow--something a lot of people are probably kicking themselves for not having done themselves--but they've developed technology that leverages the fact that, broadband notwithstanding, most Americans are still dialing into the Web at 28k bps.
		Comet Cursor, the company's flagship product launched in 1998, allows banner advertisers and site publishers to change the appearance of a user's cursor with a client plug-in and server-based software, linked to a site or banner.
		He explains that the cursor is ultimately a tool for more site interactivity, offering the ability for advertisers and site publishers to change a cursor in a lot of different ways over different links, such as giving a user a price on an item as he or she mouses over it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BDW/is_23_41/ai_62918980 (864 words)

	Comet Cursor and Internet Privacy by Sitebilder Hosting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Comet Cursor is one of those things that some website operators think is so "cute" that everyone who downloads certain files, and in some cases, even just visits their site, will be slipped a copy of the Comet Cursor program, usually on the sly.
		While Comet Cursor is not exactly in the spyware league, it nevertheless tracks your web surfing links and stores the information, which can be accessed by Comet Cursor affiliated websites.
		The Comet Cursor website is Here, but I would not advise your going there until you have read how to keep this thing off your system, below.
	sitebilder.com /hosting/privacy/comet.php (672 words)

	Cursor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A ref cursor is a reference to a result set that resides in server memory.
		Comet Systems Releases Comet Cursor Version 1.1, Putting Web Surfers in Control of Their Cursors.
		De Cursor is een Punkt, dat du on de Kieker vun een Computer sen könnt.
	low-saxon.encyclopedia.st /Cursor (297 words)

	Chapter 17: Spyware
		Comet Cursor allows a user to customize their icons to characters like Garfield or Dilbert.
		Comet Cursor is a browser extension that allows websites to change the cursor substituting any image instead of the standard arrow.
		According to Comet Systems, the makers of Comet Cursor, the information is used to determine which cursors are popular to improve the selection that the service offers.
	www.intelligentedu.com /computer_security_for_everyone/17-spyware.html (1676 words)

	Comet Cursor
		Comet Cursors are activated through a quick download (quick meaning it takes seconds) similar to Macromedia's Flash download.
		When a surfer visits a web site where the Comet Cursor is to be enabled, he/she is asked to decide whether or not to download.
		If you're receiving the cursor without having downloaded the plug-in at VGF or one of its affiliates, it's highly likely that you downloaded it in the past and simply forgot about it (this is easy since the download time is hardly noticeable).
	www.vgf.com /misc/comet.htm (308 words)

	Company Profile Layout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Comet Systems, developer of the Comet Cursor, has entered into an agreement that allows advertisers to deploy branded Comet Cursor Ads over the Flycast Network.
		The same banner is used regardless of whether users download the Comet Cursor, eliminating the need for advertisers to develop multiple versions of the same campaign.
		A recent Millward Brown Interactive study of the Comet Cursor documented a doubling of click-through rates and a ten-fold increase in ad awareness when a branded cursor was added to an online banner.
	www.galaxymall.com /stores/kenchristy/archive/mi.index82.html (340 words)

	broadband » News » In the Lion's Den - 'Comet Cursor' creators defend application
		Comet Cursor trying to get a "clean slate" is like trying to say that a serial murderer is really an upstanding citizen, and should walk the streets freely.
		Comet Cursor does not collect any personal data on any user or their machine.
		The owners of comet cursor in the forum gave simple instructions so that you could change that number to any number you want so it would not be unique to you or anyone else.
	www.dslreports.com /shownews/18436 (3516 words)

	Wired News: Cursor Company's Conduct Cursed
		In a last-ditch effort to shake their company's reputation as a purveyor of spyware, the co-founders of Comet Systems have thrown themselves into a lion's den of privacy vigilantes.
		In recent days, Jamie Rosen and Tom Schmitter have been attempting to defend the Comet Cursor, their much-maligned free program for customizing cursors, in an online forum for users of Lavasoft's Ad-aware, a much-respected free program for removing spyware.
		Rosen said the cursor software only connected to Comet's servers to check for software updates and, for billing purposes, to upload information about what cursors the user had selected.
	www.wired.com /news/privacy/0,1848,52985,00.html (753 words)

	Smart Computing Article - Nightmare Of The Comet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Comet Systems hopes to make such technology a proprietary standard in Internet marketing, cursorizing not only Web sites but also banner ads, integrated promotional campaigns, and anything else to which a corporate logo or mascot or enticement could be applied.
		Comet's stated business model supports its stated policy of collecting only anonymous data from a user's system, lending credence to the company's complaint that it was unfairly, or at least prematurely, clubbed by the media.
		Comet Cursor users now are, and the knowledge doesn't seem to be driving anybody away.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/g0804/42g04/42g04.asp&guid= (1674 words)

	Privacy Power! Adware, Badware, Spyware: Comet Systems/Comet Cursor
		One is the version of the Comet Cursor which is bundled with RealPlayer 7.
		Comet uses this aggregated usage information to determine which cursor content is most popular and to help us improve the content selection and performance of the site.
		To prevent Comet Cursor from automatically installing itself in IE when you visit an "enhanced" site, make sure "Installation of Desktop Items" is disabled (or at the least set to Prompt) in the Security settings for Internet and Restricted Zones.
	www.accs-net.com /smallfish/comet.htm (1227 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Comet Cursor at Epinions.com
		That includes recording the URL of the page the the cursor was changed (to its comet cursor) and the URL of the page that you went to afterwards.
		But what I dislike most about the comet cursor is that they, the makers of the comet cursor, self-installed it on my computer without my consent.
		Also, on comet cursor's web site, they have a page that would put a cookie on your computer that will stop those annoying prompts to "install" the comet cursor on your computer every time you go to a comet cursor supported web site.
	www.epinions.com /cmd-review-34A-509F7B7-39D3CDC4-prod1 (1250 words)

	Help Desk Institute's Career Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Comet Systems is a New York-based company founded in 1997 and backed by aconsortium of well-known institutional investors including Idealab Capital Partners as well as private investors including the former president of Yale University.
		Our first product, the Comet Cursor 1.X has been downloaded and used by more than 70 million people around the world, making it one of the most popular programs on the Internet.
		Smart Cursors are marketed to the consumer and backed by a powerful b2b revenue model which leverages the astonishing success of Comet´s first generation software.
	www.thinkhdijobdesk.com /profiles.asp?CompanyCode=CCMT11 (327 words)

	The mystery of Comet Cursor: How it got on my PC (yours too)
		Because I downloaded software from RealNetworks and Comet Cursor came bundled with it, something I didn't notice at the time but learned as I read the "spyware" stories.
		It is also possible, as a friend found out, to have Comet Cursor show up as an icon someplace on the PC, but that was because his kids downloaded the program, perhaps to get the South Park cursor.
		So the upshot of this is: Comet Cursor may be mysterious -- it certainly was to me -- but it's not spyware and it's not a problem, per se.
	review.zdnet.com /4520-6033_16-4205493.html (817 words)

	Valatka.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Comet Cursor is a marketing tool and Comet Systems is a marketing company, period.
		Thanks to Comet Cursor's detractors, however, I found a way for the PC user to take charge and obliterate Comet Cursor without reformatting all the hard drives.
		Comet Cursor is ornery, but no match for Ad-Aware, which removed most of the Comet files and registry keys on the first pass.
	www.valatka.com /advice001.php (681 words)

	5/10/99 BW Online--Web Advertising's Newest Tool: Your Cursor
		Margolis says Comet's cursor technology is live on 10,000 sites, 300 of which are licensees paying up to $3,000 a month.
		But "a changing cursor is not as substantial as putting your ad in the right place to begin with," he adds.
		Comet won't release details of its financial results, and Forrester's Nail doubts that the cursor alone can make a successful company.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/may1999/nf90510d.htm (873 words)

	Cursor Software Monitors Customers
		They also contend it would not be enormously difficult with today's technology to begin correlating the Comet serial number with a consumer's identity if the company suddenly decided to or if Comet -- with its extensive tracking database -- were purchased by new owners willing to do that.
		Schmitter said Comet was unaware until Monday it had been collecting those numbers and promised to delete those records, but the company will continue to randomly assign serial numbers to its customers because it needs to count them accurately to make money.
		Privacy experts said it was unclear whether Comet was violating any law, although Jason Catlett of Junkbusters Corp., a New Jersey-based privacy advocate, wrote Monday to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer asking him to investigate.
	www.urielw.com /refs/991129.htm (700 words)

	Comet Systems Releases Comet Cursor Version 1.1
		Comet Systems upgraded its Comet Cursor technology to Version 1.1, adding a "Set Desktop Cursor" function that allows users to capture a cursor anywhere on the Web and save it as a personal desktop cursor.
		Comet has also added a "Travelling License Key" that will enable advertisers to serve Comet Cursors with banner ads.
		The Comet Cursor is a patent-pending technology that allows any Web site to display a graphic or animation of its choice in place of the traditional "arrow" cursor on a Web browser.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=14521 (263 words)

	Comet's cursor software tracks users' Web visits \| CNET News.com
		Software that allows users to change their Web browser's cursor into cartoon characters has quietly been tracking the movement of its users across certain sites on the Internet.
		The free cursor software offered by New York-based Comet Systems assigns each user a unique identifying serial number that is then used to track how many people are using the software and which sites those users visit.
		Comet said the serial numbers do not connect users to personal information, especially since no personally identifiable information like email addresses or names are necessary to download the software.
	news.com.com /2100-1023-233645.html (433 words)

	Privacy Power! Adware, Badware, Spyware: Comet Systems/Comet Cursor
		Comet uses this aggregated usage information to determine which cursor content is most popular and to help us improve the content selection and performance of the site.
		Comet Cursor collects referrer IDs, IP addresses and system information (time of visit, type of browser used, operating system and cllickstream information.
		To prevent Comet Cursor from automatically installing itself in IE when you visit an "enhanced" site, make sure "Installation of Desktop Items" is disabled (or at the least set to Prompt) in the Security settings for Internet and Restricted Zones.
	accs-net.com /smallfish/comet.htm (1227 words)

	The Daily Ping: Worst Program Ever: My Comet Cursor (12/26/2000)
		Changing the way a cursor looks is, to me, a big no-no. Lots of people customize their PCs to work and look the way they want to, and this includes the cursors.
		I think that the Comet Cursor is the worst program as well.
		Comet also installs a program called Downloadware and a few others when it installs itself..
	www.dailyping.com /archive/2000/12/26 (1007 words)

	Comet partners with GoTo, Ask Jeeves \| CNET News.com
		Comet Systems, which developed a technology that changes consumers' cursors into animated or still images as well as reference tools, says it has inked a distribution deal with online search service GoTo.com.
		Comet added that it is syndicating content from Ask Jeeves in which the Comet Cursor will feature rankings of Web sites based on relative popularity for any given search term.
		The Comet Cursor, which works with Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions 4.01 and higher, is customizable to use with other search engines.
	news.com.com /2110-1023-270806.html (446 words)

	Comet for Windows
		Comet for Windows is a software to analyze light curves of comets, or to support observation of comets.
		Comet for Windows is recognized as an adware or spyware called Comet Cursor or CometSystems by Spybot-SearchandDestroy or McAfee SiteAdvisor.
		I received a report that "Comet.exe" is recognized as Comet Cursor by Spybot-SearchandDestroy when installing Comet for Windows into a default folder.
	www.aerith.net /project/comet.html (315 words)

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