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Is SpyHunter Spyware?
Name: NarrowPathPilgrim Date: August 22, 2004 at 14:25:57 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 512 2 GHz
Comment:
I Have A Friend Who Was Using SpyHunter Then I Installed Adaware and Spybot And Did A Full System Scan With Adaware, It Says That SpyHunter Is SpyWare, Does Anyone Know If It Is Or Not?
Name: SudsTheatre Date: August 22, 2004 at 14:54:54 Pacific
Reply:
The file linked here is good to keep handy--just in case. We refer to it often.
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Response Number 2
Name: BlueRaja Date: August 22, 2004 at 23:22:37 Pacific
Reply:
You shouldn't capitalize every word, because... it annoys me.
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Response Number 3
Name: yankanuk Date: August 23, 2004 at 11:41:26 Pacific
Reply:
Cool your jets BlueRaja, what is the harm in that?
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Response Number 4
Name: BlueRaja Date: August 23, 2004 at 12:34:50 Pacific
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lol I was joking
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Response Number 5
Name: suzi Date: August 24, 2004 at 09:37:56 Pacific
Reply:
Here are links to the results of Eric Howes' recent testing of SpyHunter:
Lavasoft's Ad-aware flags SpyHunter due to allegations that SpyHunter transmits the Windows Product ID from users' PCs back to the company. Reference:
http://www.lavasoftnews.com/theeye/i19/a1.html
There is no known documentation that proves SpyHunter actually installs malware/spyware however.
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Response Number 6
Name: White Hat Date: August 24, 2004 at 10:18:09 Pacific
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The only COMMON thing i can think of is when SpyHunter found an object it couldnt delete so it put it in the quareteen folder and when Ad Aware was searching for spyware if found the spyware that spyhunter had put in the quareteen.
~White Hat~
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Response Number 7
Name: suzi Date: August 24, 2004 at 14:04:59 Pacific
Reply:
White Hat,
If you read my post - Ad-aware DOES flag SpyHunter as spyware. But whether or not it "should", is up for debate still.
The link I posted for the Lavasoft news article explains why SpyHunter is targeted.
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