Talk:Dope Wars

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http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=453076280

according to CA Spyware Information Center, above, the security issue relating to 'dope wars' was in regards to a malicious bit of third-party programming called 'Gator' which was bundled with the dopewars download. not only did 'Gator' collect user information and send that collected data off to third party's in order to spam users, but it also apparently 'silently connects to the internet after reboot without user awareness or consent'.

pretty nasty stuff, back in the day.

does anyone else have any other information on this, however? or an update? the last date at the CA site is 2004, if i'm reading it correctly.

21:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Game history

I'm slightly confused by this article -- in the first part, it appears to be based on a game called Chronic 2005 (Dope Wars has been around since well before 2005, though I'm not assuming Chronic 2005 came out in 2005). Further down in the article, it states the multi-player version spawned Chronic 2005 (Which appears to be more accurate). Was this simply an error, and should the beginning have stated the reverse, that Chronic 2005 was based on Dope Wars? Callcentermonkey 16:08, 12 March 2007 (UTC)