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Lord of the Rings March 11th, 2008 12:50 PM

Do you know what spyware they use? Some use a program such as Pestpatrol for example which whilst generally a good program, thinks ALL p2p programs be they LW or bittorrent programs are spyware.

If you checked with both the programs I suggested and they both came up with zero ... then your previous spyware program is coming up with FALSE-POSITIVES. ie: not well programmed. As I have been saying.

BTW you didn't answer my other question. (I can't play guessing games all night lol)

underground49 March 11th, 2008 12:59 PM

Spyware program is CA PestPatrol, and what other question was that. Both came up with zero.

Lord of the Rings March 11th, 2008 01:05 PM

Yep ... unfortunately you were tricked by PestPatrol. Once upon a time they were p2p safe, but they changed their programming approach and attitude a few years ago. Whilst generally a good program, it is not suitable for p2p. What it will often do is in fact remove parts of the LW program leaving it unusable and difficult to fully uninstall properly.

It will have a safe list in its options for LW. So put LW on it's option list.

You may need to clean up your registry with a utility, I'd recommend Crap Cleaner for this. It is fast.

I'd also recommend either put LW on PP's safe list, else disable it (may need to contact ISP to do that as sometimes it's a security extra option), and instead use those I recommended. ;)

Then try installing LW again if you wish. But keep in mind about tips in the blue warning link in post #7 above.

underground49 March 11th, 2008 01:36 PM

My ISP doesn't want to even deal me with the issue I have. They told me to contact Limewire for this issue and thats where I'm at now. What did you mean put on safe list? It's already in quarantine. I've already tried that cleaner it didn't even pick it up as well in registry. Putting it on pp's safe list what will that do? Any other suggestions will be nice at this point. Just want to get it off. If amusing that is making my computer run slower.

Lord of the Rings March 11th, 2008 01:45 PM

Putting LW on its safe list will mean it will ignore the LW program itself and concentrate on true spyware.

I am sure PP has a Help menu. :)

Sleepless March 11th, 2008 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by underground49 (Post 310952)
Windows Vistas
I'm a comcast member and on there toolbar has a spyware scan I use it and I'm coming up limewire every time I scan and it is not removing it.
It's not showing up in my programs.

Where is this toolbar with the spyware scan?
Is it a part of your internet browser or is it a program installed with a package from Comcast?
Can you set it to not scan?
If it's in your browser, What browser is it?

underground49 March 11th, 2008 02:40 PM

The program is installed with package.

Sleepless March 11th, 2008 02:41 PM

What kind of package? What's included?

The reason I ask is that Comcast really likes to make life hard for someone that likes p2p, but taking control of someones PC is definitely not allowed.

underground49 March 11th, 2008 02:47 PM

What do you mean by what kind of package. Comcast comes with Mcafee security suite and spyware scanner is from CA PestPatrol. Contacted CA PestPatrol and told me to contact Limewire so this where I'm at. Contact Comcast told me to contact Limewire as well.

underground49 March 11th, 2008 02:48 PM

Right now tring to get someone to replie back to me in the comcast forums. No luck yet.


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