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pog	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:24 AM everyone with aim should read this and check to see if their running "viewpoint" without knowing it !
pog	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:24 AM http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/april-2003/2.php
johnnygnote	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:56 AM http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Woof	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 3:11 AM http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php That's the home for Spybot Search & Destroy... it's pretty darned effective, although it has been known to miss a few entries from horrible programs like BlazeFind... Thx for the heads up...
pog	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 9:37 AM spybot didn't pick it up... go to you're add remove programs, and see if there's a viewpoint media thingy installed. Then ask yourelf if you installed it.
djfacemachine	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:23 PM baleeted it TY poggy
robbydadrummer	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 1:07 PM I had Viewpoint on my system also... had to have come from AIM... goes into rant mode "AOL, YOU LOUSY BASTARDS! YOU SUCK! AND STOP SENDING ME YOUR DAMN CD'S!!!!"
Zepwoman	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 1:16 PM No Aim but yes to MSN messenger!
Etheracide	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 1:39 PM I noticed Viewpoint in C:/Program Files the third day of me using my new laptop. I deleted it because I didn't put it there and I wouldn't use it...whether it was spyware or not didn't concern me as much because I was deleting it to Hell anyway =0) Speaking of which. I would advise everyone to NOT click on the banner ad for the "projection system" that gives you a 'big screen tv' by projecting the image from your television onto a wall (or movie screen). It was my second night using my new laptop. You could count every non-system file on it on your two hands. I visited the site and left and noticed a lag in my system. I checked out my Program Manager and suddenly there were approximately 40 processes running with names like 0x230ldf9. I closed all of those programs and went through by hand and deleted nearly 100 different installers and apps that weren't there just a few minutes before that. I am not going to say that I am 100% positive that it was that site that did it...but it seemed to be so. Guess that teaches me not to click on a banner ad...even though I already knew that =0(
Distilled1	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 4:31 PM I must have goten it from compaq to bad though looks like zone alarm wont let it send info out and now I can re-move it I should have just built a box
Woof	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 5:05 PM Got it! Thx Pog... Looks like it's bundled with AOL instant messenger, and AOL in general... according to what I found, it just reinstalls itself if you use AOL again... so I removed instant messenger as well...
Distilled1	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 5:47 PM AOL sucks don't it I still have aim but damn its old I refuse to update it!
robbydadrummer	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 7:07 PM AOL sucks donkey balls. I use AIM all the time for trading music and stuff, so I keep it updated... and all of my family uses AIM also... soooooo... beats long distant phone call bills.
johnnygnote	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 11:46 PM Spywareblaster does more than check for spyware it does not allow it to enter at all. I've used Spybot, Adaware, and HijackThis for years and ever since I installed Spywareblaster All of my spy removal ware finds far less spyware if not none at all.
pog	Date: April 9, 2004 @ 12:00 AM I use spybot s&d ... used in conjunction with it's immunise function, it's pretty good like that. still I may check out spywareblaster... just so long as it doesn't go in and blast away at the wrong things
HammerofJustice	Date: April 17, 2004 @ 8:30 PM Spybot cant pick this up, try spy hunter.
mtekk	Date: April 17, 2004 @ 9:07 PM i don't have AIM, i always suspected that it had spyware
Zepwoman	Date: April 21, 2004 @ 3:30 AM Does anyone have MSN messenger? I love it, it is Great!!
MonnieB	Date: April 21, 2004 @ 7:23 AM Whoa... Thanks so much for the heads up, Pog... Got rid of AIM and viewpoint... Good looking out, honey...
Woof	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 12:30 AM While I was spending all last week waiting for my internet connection to get fixed, I decided to redo my HD. First step, install the OS after reformatting, with all the factory programs that came with our PC. Surprise! Viewpoint was back, even though I hadn't installed AIM!!!! Why do I have the feeling, that this is only the beginning of something ugly in webland?
jess1561	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 1:28 AM raises hand I have MSN, AIM, Y! and ICQ too many! ... ...
pog	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 6:59 AM Icq is now in with aol, so there's just as much advertising, but at least there's no viewpoint (yet)
TameasDust	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 7:40 AM I don't have msn, aim, ICQ, yahoo, Mirc or any of the variants thereof ... The only one I have is PalTalk ... MSN always wanted to connect to the internet and was just plain annoying. AIM sucked big bananas and wouldn't upgrade if you had an old system so fuck them. ICQ was always complicated and virus/pervert ridden. Yahoo had no room control and was always trying to overtake anything else you ran. Mirc and IRC fell out of style and was replaced with text/voice/video chat of PalTalk. Paltalk has banner ads and advertisements ... cookies galore and all that ... seems to be a topic of starting conversation mostplaces ... but overall it has the best quality and ease of use of any chat proggy ... plus 5 million registered users ... plus they have paltalk radio ... too each their own
robbydadrummer	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 3:55 PM I have too many people I trade music with on AIM since my AudioGalaxy days (it's still the best service for this aspect, especially since you can send a whole folder and it will resume file transfers that are interrupted, unlike crappy MSN), so I need to keep it... plus, as I said before, all of my family uses it. MSN is on here only for a few people I talk to. I stopped using ICQ... 2 IM services are enough, and now you can chat to ICQ members through AIM anyways if they are using ICQ Lite or Pro 2003b.
pog	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 6:32 PM I use easy message... it doesn't do webcam and sometime the file sending doesn't work, but it handles messaging with aim, icq, msn and yahoo. Good, light, and hasslefree

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