This so called "Spyware Detection" program is a fraud. It is nothing more than a marketing ploy to get people to join Earthlink.
First, it claims that I have several spyware programs on my machine that I know for a fact I do not. Alexa and Wild Tangent are no where near this machine. Spybot and AdAware confirm, as well as manual checks. Seems they are possibly scanning registry keys, and finding SpywareBlaster's kill bit - either that or it is flat out lying.
Second, it uses generic names for non existent "trackers" - "Spy #5c5f4 -- Research In Progress" - sorry, if it's real, then it should have a name.
Finally, and this is the most aggravating one - this program identifies a cookie that Earthlink itself places on your machine when you visit this page as a adware cookie. They also list one cookie that I do have that I need - from TV Guide - to keep track of my channel listings on the TV Guide site. This I'll simply ignore, even though it's still wrong.
This means they are intentionally placing files on your machine so they can identify stuff to make you, the supposed ignorant user, paranoid and lead you to believe that joining their service and using their tools (which are freely available anyway) will keep these things off your machine.
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This so called "Spyware Detection" program is a fraud. It is nothing more than a marketing ploy to get people to join Earthlink.
First, it claims that I have several spyware programs on my machine that I know for a fact I do not. Alexa and Wild Tangent are no where near this machine. Spybot and AdAware confirm, as well as manual checks. Seems they are possibly scanning registry keys, and finding SpywareBlaster's kill bit - either that or it is flat out lying.
Second, it uses generic names for non existent "trackers" - "Spy #5c5f4 -- Research In Progress" - sorry, if it's real, then it should have a name.
Finally, and this is the most aggravating one - this program identifies a cookie that Earthlink itself places on your machine when you visit this page as a adware cookie. They also list one cookie that I do have that I need - from TV Guide - to keep track of my channel listings on the TV Guide site. This I'll simply ignore, even though it's still wrong.
This means they are intentionally placing files on your machine so they can identify stuff to make you, the supposed ignorant user, paranoid and lead you to believe that joining their service and using their tools (which are freely available anyway) will keep these things off your machine.
I went to install it until I found out it's spyware.... Gotta love http://www.spychecker.com/
Bwaaahahahahaaaa!