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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, September 29, 2003 8:48:24 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Monday, September 29, 2003 7:14:11 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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* Gator (claims to provide: useful utils for remembering web form details, calendar/date applet, etc. Really provides: advertising popups.
* Comet-cursor
* !HotBar (claims to provide: IE toolbar. Really provides: ads. Use instead: [Google toolbar|http://toolbar.google.com].)
* New.net (claims to provide: new [TLD]s like .cool, .cars, .boats etc. Really provides: you guessed it, ads. Use instead: common sense! A reputable company will get a name on the real Internet.)
+* Incredimail. It makes gratuitive use of html email to put animated gifs and embedded sound into emails, but it rarely looks the same at the recipient's end, and the [EULA] claims to give them the right to anything you write using it, sending messages back to them (via [SMTP]).
There is also a category of "real" software that "phones home" in ways that perhaps it shouldn't. RealPlayer and WindowsMediaPlayer are two great examples of this. You can turn it off if you dig through the config enough.
BonziBuddy and most other software of this type can be removed by [Ad-aware|http://www.lavasoftusa.com]. In some cases the Spyware will try to remove Ad-aware first, and/or prevent lavasoft's download site from resolving so you might have to download it via an uninfected computer. (If this was the case it wouldn't be spyware but a virus)
