Do you accept Spyware?

Even if I know that many spywares auto load during simple navigation with cookies ect., (and for this i regulary sweep my drives) I am not willing to keep symbionthic programs...
 
You want to be better informed? Then post your voice also in this tread at popular Zeropaid filesharing portal:

http://www.zeropaid.com/cgi-bin/ub/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=SiteFeedback&Post=101

Stop the greed.
 
Or if they just don't care. Either way, they can't be trusted.

True, but we have too many lawsuits in the world today. Often their outcome is irrelevant (just ask Microsoft). There is a better way to deal with the spyware/trojan issue: Boycott programs that bundle spyware! Go out to all the forums and spread the word!

Developers bundling spyware with their products are a lot like a virus writers "bundling" virii with dropper programs.
 
After 67hours of step by step, routine, by routine, instruction by insruction, dis-assembling I am very please to say that ver 2.04
of limewire is very clean, and contains no spyware, unless u include a small transmission that send what appears to be only the version number, and build. I dis-miss this as a accecptable function, and not spyware. As far as Whom ever actually programs the code, there is still an issue that I found debugging the earlier versions, that they overlap the stack space, with the Code segment, which can cause freeze ups, under circumstances where the data segment code flows into the code segment, all pushed registers and pointers are lost , thus ending your session with Limewire. Im supprised that they overlooked this, since MASM did detect it immediatley......
 
Hi Carlo!

You can ask me everytime which progs are infected and which not...

in many cases ad-aware is a very good friend!

Morgwen
 
Ok, first things first buddy, most software does send information without you ever verifing its content, Windows XP is a prime example, when a crash occurs there is an option to send information about your system, including SwapFile content, register settings, and some memory areas, Is this spyware? no infact it is not. other programs include, Norton (most products), and more..

So wake up buddy, Im telling you, Limewire 2.04 is clean, except for what I have already said about stack errors. and a minor script error which is never delt with, when java debugging is OFF....!
 
List of all Gnutella clients with spyware/scumware:

Bearshare *infected*
Limewire *infected*
Morpheus *infected*
Swapnut *infected*

everyone else is clean!!
 
From http://www.simplythebest.net/info/spyware.html

Gator helps you to fill out forms and remember usernames and passwords of sites you frequently visit. You may even have credit card information readily available when you wish to purchase something online. A very dangerous thing to do. Your personal information is stored on your computer in an encrypted file. Gator accesses this personal information, using your IP address. Gator targets consumers based on site visitation and historical behavior. Gator provides aggregate statistics about its customers, traffic patterns and related site information to third-party vendors. As banners from sites you visit are being served, Gator will show their advertiser's banners instead.

Trickler (a modul of Gator) is an "install stub", a small program that is installed with the application you really wanted. (Gator almost always appears on your system due to installing OTHER software, and not the installer available from Gator's website.) When installed, Trickler inserts a Run key in your Registry so that it is silently and automatically loaded every time you start your computer. Trickler runs hidden and very slowly downloads the rest of Gator/OfferCompanion onto your system. It is suggested that this "trickling" activity is intended to slip under the user's radar, the steady, low usage of bandwidth going unnoticed.
 
Morg, you should really try to keep up to date on these things. BearShare 2.6 does not come with cydoor. Cydoor elicited a hell of a responce by just about everyone at BearShare.net and it looks like Freepeers is reexamining their options.
 
Yeah so does M$ IE & Netscape/Mozilla, I guess you're using it anyway?



So does M$ Passport except for the small difference that Gator saves your information on your hard drive and not on some server in Redmond.



Do you know how many ad-providers do the same thing as Gator, except for that they are operating from the server side? Did you ever wonder why they (if you let them) store zillions of cookies? Any commercial website trys to acquire user information. And some or quite successful at doing so. Even some ISPs are known for selling statistical information about their users behaviour online...

So what's the big deal?
 
To keep you uptodate....
here another interesting thread about past and current spyware in LimeWire:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7908
 
Actually this was a big joke at the time. NT's POSIX support was a last minute add-on and absolute crap at that. They needed to claim support since it was a requirement for certain government bids, but it never actually worked. Aside from the TCP/IP stack, the whole NT/BSD thing is mostly urban legend. Too bad actually, BSD is far more stable.
 
Well, it sure is acting like spyware when it does this. That being said, Windows is probably sending the information to help Microsoft debug the code, and does this only when something crashes. Spyware does this all the time. But I believe you about LimeWire being clean now.
 
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