Shoutbox

This is a plea to Patchou to try to save this good program from a bad rep. 

Your current sponsor (Lop.com) is probably the most hated malware (yes, malware) creator on the internet today.  I definately appreciate that you need to be paid for your efforts and that a sponsor program is a good way to get some funding, but this sponsor could kill an otherwise great peice of software.  Please consider the long term affects of affiliating yourself with this company and it's practices.

For example, when I installed the latest update I decided to allow the sponsor program to be installed since I knew it would generate revenue for you.  However, the next day I found that I had a permanent toolbar, new favorites, a non-existant home page, and several new icons on my desktop.  Annoying,  but I expected some inconvenience from an adware type program.  After doing some research, I've come to realize that Lop.com employs methods that are easily categorized as trojan behavior (everytime I killed the process, it popped up again with a different name) and just not good business.

Shortly after that, I actually contracted a virus on my system (which was promptly halted by TrendMicro).  While I'm not saying that Lop.com gave me a virus, it is quite suspect as I've never just had a virus download itself on to my computer for no appearant reason before.  Since this was the only recent install on my system in the past few weeks, I have to assume there was some connection.

To sum up, I did uninstall and re-install to get the sponsor illness off of my system, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.  While I am an experienced user, I could never recommend this program to any of my friends or family who aren't computer saavy.  This is just not a good thing.

So, please just think about it.

Peace,
- Glen