System Mechanic: Spyware or not ???

Hi everyone,

Some week ago I sent the following email to Iolo Technologies LLC:

This msg was left unanswered (sounds to me like they don't like to acknowledge their own fault !)...
Is there any member who knows something more about this subject (which I think may be of interest to every user of that appl) ?

 

I think I'd run Ad-aware and if it finds the program, you got spyware.

 

There's nothing on the Web's various spyware sites re Netbooster installing spyware. It's safe subject to further info.

List of Known Spyware

 

...not so easy Newt...I'll try to explain myself better...

I have System Mechanic 3.6f installed on my machine but 'til now by chance I never run the NetBooster module (fortunately...?)...then I heard the rumour on the net...

From AAW 5.62 FAQs:

In other terms, I do purchase a sfw (SM is a shareware prg...) but "to clean" it I should uninstall it ??? ... not good at all! This is the reason why I started investigating before running that utility...

My source...

 

Ah so Gianni. Thanks for the additional info.

That sort of nonsense is one reason I was glad to move to Win2K. It doesn't let any 3rd party program write to system32 or, if they do manage to do so, it will immediately replace the modified file with a good original.

What 2K does when a program needs a specialized dll is force it to be put in the same folder as the program's exe file and then looks there first when the exe is run, even if the exe wants to look in system32.

I'm not positive but I assume the various XP flavors have the same sort of protection built in. Anybody know for sure?

 

Thanks for the Spyware list, DD!

That will come in handy someday, I'm sure.


Mike