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Originally posted by Sam Spade
Which site was that? I'm sure that you'd only use a legitimate download site, and there are many in this forum that would love to have a look for themselves so please share.
Well, the GIANT Anti-Spyware free trial was available in many download sites before MS bought GIANT, and
many sites haven't been updated removing the download yet. It's completely "legitimate", it's a free trial version, not the internal testing version MS is distributing. Both detect Msgplus as spyware.
I think it's a misbehaviour by GIANT, not only in this case but in every optional bundler case. It should search for actual Adware/Spyware, not for software that could have installed adware/spyware if the user had agreed to it. The latter is probably easier to do, but it makes the product a nicely designed robotic and random add/remove programs script instead of an adware and spyware scanner/remover.
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