Rather interesting that Symantec labels ClickTilluWin a trojan on one URL and then later claims that it is not malicious on another. And McAfee did the same thing? How often do you see these two companies labeling something a trojan or virus, and then changing their minds? This is the first time that I have seen this happen. Something strange is going on here.
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| why have both of them changed what they are calling it and labeling it if it's a trojon? |
They were probably threatened with legal action by the publisher of the trojan for casting their product in a negative light (and perhaps also by the software vendors (BearShare, Grokster, etc.) who bundled this spyware.) Gator has done this (
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...6.html?tag=txt), so why not other spyware companies?
Look at the description of ClickTilluWin at the f-secure site, and of Gator at
http://www.cexx.org/gator.htm. What would you call these programs? If they are not trojans, then they are becoming very trojan-like, IMHO at least. Do you want programs like these lurking on your system?
Bear in mind (no pun intended) that spyware companies and their customers are not malicious. They are just profit oriented to the point of being unethical.
Why deal with spyware/trojans when you don't have to? Clients such as Xolox, Gnucleus, etc. work just as well as BearShare and LimeWire, maybe better. Why not check them out (they are listed on
www.gnutelliums.com) and try them out for yourself?
January 6th, 2002
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