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By aaronl
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aaronl avatar
aaronl
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I think its a good idea to mention programs that contains Spyware. <BR>i discovered a registry spy on Ezpop. <BR>If you like i can test more.
Gregor Klevže avatar
Gregor Klevže
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interesting topic. I think we really could share those informations
snowman avatar
snowman
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Registry spy on ezpop?! <BR>Care to explain that a bit further?! <BR> <BR>I find it highly unlikely that Thibster made any kind of &quot;spyware&quot; application!!
aaronl avatar
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i just tell what the scanner i&acute;m using is saying. The used spyware is the eZula type and was found in EzPop. Further info i cannot give because the scanner removed it all.
snowman avatar
snowman
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Hmm... I&acute;d better have a lill talk with Thibaud about this!
pk avatar
pk
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Hear hear!! All the software on my site is officially not shipped with SpyWare!!! ;-)
plastic avatar
plastic
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Latest version of ad-aware, no sign of ezula in EzPop (latest version too), nor did I find it with online scanners. It&acute;s a mail program, hence connects and receives your regular spam. Spyware tools can easily consider that the result of EzPop itself, while it isn&acute;t the cause. Scanners mistake, that&acute;s why the initial spyware site had &quot;suspects&quot; before concvictions were handed out... If you cannot give real info, don&acute;t hand out accusations too easily. That is, if there&acute;s no facts to back it up.
scarebear avatar
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I&acute;d say it&acute;s like plastic said.
aaronl avatar
aaronl
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i use, among others, also the latest ad-adware 5.83. However, its possible that the scanner mixed things up, so if i was too quick by telling, then i&acute;m sorry. <BR>Nevertheless; i think its a good idea to tell about this if some spyware is found.
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Huh ? What&acute;s that, a joke ? <BR>EzPop doesn&acute;t contain ANY SPYWARE inside. It&acute;s a full freeware and doesn&acute;t send any of your private informations to a &quot;secret&quot; website. <BR>Previous versions of EzPop were including a News features so EzPop was connecting to the Glabouni.com website in order to get the server list, then read the news themselves. This feature has been removed (since it&acute;s now replaced by HoverNews). <BR> <BR>The only things EzPop is sending are your login/pass to your POP servers in order to connect to your mail server and notify you about your awaiting messages. That&acute;s all, nothing more. <BR> <BR>AronL, I&acute;m curious to understand how Ad-aware could find any kind of spyware inside ! <BR>If checking messages is now considered as spyware, then Oultook, Eudora, Netscape etc... should be spyware as well =] <BR>EzPop has been recently featured on TechTV and I would be suprised they would have done that if it was including a spyware. <BR> <BR>Btw, a new release of EzPop will be ready very soon with more protocol support (IMAP4 / MAPI) and some great new features and still ... spyware free ! <BR> <BR>
scarebear avatar
scarebear
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Thanks for clearing that up. I look forward to the new version too :)
cuttheredwire avatar
cuttheredwire
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What spyware scanner did you use? This should be made aware to them. This a serious bug in the app... that or they are anti-EzPop. :P Anyway, I&acute;ld like to try this scanner out for myself, and see what happens. I&acute;ve run ad-aware before, so I know it ain&acute;t that. <BR> <BR>Got a link?
craeonics avatar
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Possibly heuristic scanning, akin to how some virus scanners do it. Meaning that it searches for code that <i>could</i> be spyware, but would not necessarily be so.
xymantix avatar
xymantix
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Yup, a lot of times a positive just means that you should investigate further - not that it&acute;s really a problem.
brub avatar
brub
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A NEW EZPOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <BR> <BR>cool!
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