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FeedDemon bringing spyware?

I don't believe that Paschal's trouble with spyware is caused by FeedDemon. I just scanned with AdAware (David is right, it's great) and came up clean, not to mention the fact that I have had no spyware symptoms.

As for monitoring the registry, try RegMon, or Process Explorer from Sysinternals.

Oh, and thanks to Roy for reminding me about the new Google toolbar. Very nice.

Posted: Jun 27 2003, 09:23 PM by DanB | with 6 comment(s)

Comments

Nick Bradbury said:

Thanks for posting this, Dan. You're right, of course, that FeedDemon has nothing to do with spyware, and I'm very curious as to why Paschal claims otherwise.
# June 27, 2003 11:14 PM

David Stone said:

Or why not support LavaSoft further and buy their RegHance product. ;) http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/reghance/
# June 28, 2003 12:03 AM

Paschal said:

Hey guys gimme a break ! I didn't accused FeedDemon of anything, I just say that some of the feeds you have by default can carry a spyware !!
# June 29, 2003 5:41 PM

Nick Bradbury said:

Paschal, which feed(s) do you believe carry SpyWare? FeedDemon removes tags such as script, object and embed before previewing any feed, and I'd be surprised to hear that a feed we're including is somehow getting around this.
# July 2, 2003 11:00 PM

dgsinclair said:

I just installed and uninstalled both feeddemon and newsgator, and one of them brought nasty adware onto my computer which adaware could not find. Every 10 minutes a new ad window popped up.
# January 26, 2004 5:10 PM

REUT said:

I think FeedDemon installs Viewpoint which is annoying software
# May 16, 2004 5:11 PM
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