New spyware in town : EBU5372.exe
 

Installed LW BETA 2.04 then started LW up for the first time .
Then my firewall informs me of EBU5372.exe in \Windows\TEMP\ trying to connect .
When I open my TEMP folder the thing seems to be gone .
Self-deleted ?

Where is this gonna end , LW ?

I'm running Linux, so I don't have this problem, but at home what I do to avoid this spyware is never download Windows verions, but Linux or other version that distributes the .jar files (all you need). Currently the Linux version is a .bin file, but surely you can get the jar files (for instance from the Linux .tgz) and get rid of all this spyware!

Bad enough that there is spyware at all in LW....this ruins the reliability and trustability of freeware.

Mac OS X
 

Does anyone know if the spyware is in the Mac OS X version?

If there's spyware in the windows version, there's bound to be some in the mac version

Nope, no spyware in the mac version. Spyware companies only target windows users.

2.0.4 contains Gator and Toptext, which are <i>strictly</i> optional, and a couple of desktop icons. (No clicktilluwin or net2phone.) That's it. Are you <i>sure</i> you had a clean system before installing LW? I presume you opted out of Gator and Toptext?

My system was a clean install of Win98 with the Java runtime installed .
And i did opt-out of your so called "add-ons" .
Can't come from anything else since there was nothing on my system yet exept for the drivers for my PC .

I have a question for you :
If some of these "add-ins" and **** are just supposed to drop some shortcuts here and there , why do you use a 3th-party program to make them ?
For example :
That "clicktilluwin" disaster could have been avoided if you let the LW installer make that shortcut instead of bringing up some 3th party program .

Why do you need an separate 3th party "add-on" to just create a shortcut ?

We DO create the BonziBuddy and "Free Trip to Hawaii" shortcuts ourself right in the install logic, and always have done so. I just double-checked the installer code to make sure. clicktilluwin and net2phone were the only cases where we used a 3rd party app to build the icons--and we learned the hard way what a mistake that was!

I have no idea what EBU5372.exe is, and I really don't see how it could come from our installer. I will have afisk, our installer guru, check over this Thursday when he returns from a well-deserved vacation.