Spyware?

[LiLRiceBoi]

are there any downloading utilities that allow you to continue a dl, that are not spyware?

[mike L]

Have you tried download accelerator plus. it can be found at www.speedbit.com (http://www.speedbit.com)

[sharder8]

I prefer Getright. It's a shareware that once you enter the registration key, you can remove the adware. It's located at ********right.com (http://********right.com)

[LiLRiceBoi]

i thought getright was spyware

[socalgal]

It is and, according to this list, so is Download Accelerator Plus.

Here's a list of currently known Spyware Infested Software (http://www.infoforce.qc.ca/spyware/enknownlistfrm.html)

The site says this list was last updated on 10.12.2000 and there is an updated list .zip file for download.

[LiLRiceBoi]

thanks socal

[sharder8]

Getright is spyware in its unregistered version. However, once it is registered, you can remove the spyware software. That is what I did. I have run "Ad-aware" from Lavasoft, and it can find no trace of any spyware on my system.

This information was also available in a Langalist a while back and I think, but I'm not positive, it also states this at the getright web site.

Harder

[This message has been edited by sharder8 (edited 01-03-2001).]

[steves1728]

This site offers a search engine/database of known spyware softwares:
http://www.spychecker.com/

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another excellent resource with free software is here: http://www.lavasoft.de/

[marcusbateman]

Download a program called OptOut. It looks for spyware on your system and gets rid of it all. I just did mine and found 79 spyware files!!!

It's a great little program (freeware too) and it even gets rid of those annoying banner ads on Getright!!

You can get OptOut from http://grc.com/default.htm

Hope this helps

Marcus

[sharder8]

Marcus --

The problem is, Steve Gibson is no longer working on OptOut and is now recommending that you download and use Ad-aware from Lavasoft. I noticed this in an e-mail from him and also on the web site.

I found Ad-aware to find even more files and registry items than OptOut and it does the same good job of cleaning up what it finds. I still have my copy of OptOut and run it once in a while to see what it finds. But I use Ad-aware on a regular basis now.

Harder