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I've been a big fan of daemon tools and i find it a very useful and well designed piece of software. I understand that in order to keep daemon tools an effective piece of software its going to need continual updates as new forms of copy protection arise.
However spyware, and stealware are both very evil and illegal invasions into our privacy that we do not need nor should we have to endure.
The WhenU package contains two parts
- WhenU Daemon Tools SearchBar
- WhenU SaveNow
When U Daemon Tools SearchBar
This piece of software infests itself in the usual way into your internet browser. Every page you view on the web is monitored. From the pages you visit it builds an advertising profile, in other words advertising products to you that relate to what you do on the net.
Not really evil but still an invasion of your privacy. Also all the sites that you visit are logged and used by the company for many different things. However they dont keep any personably identifiable information.
The real evil comes with the
WhenU SaveNow
This piece of software is also being bundled with all the popular p2p file sharing clients.
This piece of software is designed to steal money that it is not entitled to, Hence STEALWARE.
You can read one of the many articles i came accross when i googled "save now"
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3390.cfm
The article explains how when u place orders with retailers it modifies your information to make the shop think that the reason you brought the product was because of SaveNow's advertising and they take a cut of the profits.
So this software is stealing affiliates money from other companies, this is illegal, plain and simple.
Other than the highly illegal stealware it also contains adware and evil popups also tailored to the sites you visit.
One important point to remember
- installing the WhenU Daemon Tools SearchBar is optional but,
- installing the WhenU SaveNow (stealware) software is mandatory to install daemon tools.
I hope that daemon tools allows this thread to remain open since your asking customers to place their trust in you when downloading this software without informing them of what it contains is alot to ask.
I personally wont be using any versions of daemon tools with spyware or stealware of any kind. I will stick with daemon tools as long as it remains useful and probably move over to alcohol.
There are ways in which you can make profit from this software without using add/spyware software bundles. You can offer a (free) standard and (cheap) professional version of the software, with the professional version offering additional features for example. A prime example of such a system working is inMatrix's zoom player.
However spyware, and stealware are both very evil and illegal invasions into our privacy that we do not need nor should we have to endure.
The WhenU package contains two parts
- WhenU Daemon Tools SearchBar
- WhenU SaveNow
When U Daemon Tools SearchBar
This piece of software infests itself in the usual way into your internet browser. Every page you view on the web is monitored. From the pages you visit it builds an advertising profile, in other words advertising products to you that relate to what you do on the net.
Not really evil but still an invasion of your privacy. Also all the sites that you visit are logged and used by the company for many different things. However they dont keep any personably identifiable information.
The real evil comes with the
WhenU SaveNow
This piece of software is also being bundled with all the popular p2p file sharing clients.
This piece of software is designed to steal money that it is not entitled to, Hence STEALWARE.
You can read one of the many articles i came accross when i googled "save now"
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3390.cfm
The article explains how when u place orders with retailers it modifies your information to make the shop think that the reason you brought the product was because of SaveNow's advertising and they take a cut of the profits.
So this software is stealing affiliates money from other companies, this is illegal, plain and simple.
Other than the highly illegal stealware it also contains adware and evil popups also tailored to the sites you visit.
One important point to remember
- installing the WhenU Daemon Tools SearchBar is optional but,
- installing the WhenU SaveNow (stealware) software is mandatory to install daemon tools.
I hope that daemon tools allows this thread to remain open since your asking customers to place their trust in you when downloading this software without informing them of what it contains is alot to ask.
I personally wont be using any versions of daemon tools with spyware or stealware of any kind. I will stick with daemon tools as long as it remains useful and probably move over to alcohol.
There are ways in which you can make profit from this software without using add/spyware software bundles. You can offer a (free) standard and (cheap) professional version of the software, with the professional version offering additional features for example. A prime example of such a system working is inMatrix's zoom player.
. Before I started using good firewalls and spyware blockers, the first indicator I had that SaveNow is on a system is that applications suddenly start losing focus for apparrently no reason. If the Spyware isn't so evil, then at least Whenu could have written the damn thing correctly. 
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