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Latest Daemon Tools comes with adware
From: "Frankie Li" <securityf () cheesy ca>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:03:16 +0800
Dear all, I love to use daemon tools and have just downloaded the latest version from the offical site. Immediate finish the installation, I click an option to install an attached advance search function. However, the so call advance search function is aka Adware called WhenU.Save. I can't uninstal it from the control panel until I use the Process Explorer to kill all relevent processes of WhenU.Search and WhenU.Save.I than also downloead a trial version of CounterSpy (will active 15 days) to remove all the
remaining files, registry key and folders.Beware guys! I am quite upset to see daemon tools becoming a adware spreader...
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- Latest Daemon Tools comes with adware Frankie Li (Jan 23)
- Re: Latest Daemon Tools comes with adware Blake Girardot (Jan 24)
- Re: Latest Daemon Tools comes with adware Karsten Iwen (Jan 24)
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- RE: Latest Daemon Tools comes with adware Scherer, Brian (Jan 24)