Xoftspy

KathW · #1 August 14th, 2004

I just got this new spychecker and it's very good. It found lots of stuff that SpySweeper has not shown up...there were 77 instances of spyware.

One problem.. it tells me that Limewire is a 'Threat', I didn't delete the instances, I came on here to check if anything is known about it.

EDIT: This is what it says in the details..

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Any peer-to-peer file swapping program, such as Audiogalaxy, Bearshare, Blubster, E-Mule, Gnucleus, Grokster, Imesh, KaZaa, KaZaa Lite, Limewire, Morpheus, Shareaza, WinMX and Xolox. In an organization, can degrade network performance and consume vast amounts of storage. May create security issues as outsiders are granted access to internal files. Often bundled with Adware or Spyware.

Strange thing is, I also have Shareaza installed and it didn't find that

Morgwen · #2 August 15th, 2004

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Originally posted by KathW
Any peer-to-peer file swapping program, such as Audiogalaxy, Bearshare, Blubster, E-Mule, Gnucleus, Grokster, Imesh, KaZaa, KaZaa Lite, Limewire, Morpheus, Shareaza, WinMX and Xolox. In an organization, can degrade network performance and consume vast amounts of storage. May create security issues as outsiders are granted access to internal files. Often bundled with Adware or Spyware.

Argh...

instead of investigating which client is really bad, they accuse all.

Kath you should think twice using such a program. As long the say all might be unsafe what should you delete? What is with other programs you don´t know and they say "it might be unsafe"? You might get in trouble by deleting the "wrong" files...

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SpySweeper has not shown up...there were 77 instances of spyware.

I bet at least 76 of the files this program foung isn´t spyware, perhaps some cookies or other "dangerous" software like limewire.

Morgwen