For the records... recent spyware bundler did deliver a new trojan/spyware (
DLDER) together with their clients. Those have been our old and well known spyware friends:
- Bearshare (Gnutella clone)
- LimeWire (Gnutella clone)
- Kazaa (FastTrack clone)
- Grokster (FastTrack clone)
If you did recently use one of those client, make sure you use a _new_ anti virus (TrendMicro) or anti spyware tool (AdAware) today! You won't see any warning on the webpages of those vendors, but the existance was proofen on many webpages:
http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49430,00.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8335745.html http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/intern...y.ap/index.html http://www.zeropaid.com/news/article.../01012002a.php http://www.bearshare.net/forum/showt...&threadid=8252 http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=6423 http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=6781
It seems those vendors do not have controll over their spyware, sorry boys, but isn't it true? The new trojan/spyware was allways installed without asking the user (non optional), the vendors rated this piece of software 'Adware'.
If you don't like Spyware -
don't use it. Choose a spyware free gnutella client!
PS: LimeWire finally issued an official statement:
http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/trojan