Bad experience with E-Donkey 6.1 (spyware)

I downloaded this program from the official site and it installed ok, but then it asked me if I wanted to install a plugin called ucmore, so I said yes, being a bit uncertain I loaded up the ad-watch program, comes with the adaware package, and it went crazy saying my registry had been modified, it was blipping me ever second, my cpu usage was 100%. So I ran adaware and it removed all accept for a ucmore.dll as it was in use and of which I couldn't find in memory, the registry or the win or sys.ini files. I switched the pc off so it would unload the spyware program completely and booted to dos using a Windows XP Pro Boot disk, went too the program files dir/ucmore dir and zapped the ucmore.dll file. Booted too Windows normally and after I entered my password it stated it couldnt find this ucmore.dll file. So I ran Norton System works 2002 Pro and ran the windoctor, it found a few probs and fixed them all, rebooted system clean as a whistle.

Without adaware and its adwatch utility anyone is running a risk of installing a Spyware program without knowing it. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED SO TAKE HEED.

Greetz from The Diplomat :)
 
you can download a spyware free version of this from the main site did you know !? and you dont have to install the UCMORE option either !!! its a pain in the butt and loads have probs with it if you dont choose to install ucmore you should get no probs with this ! i use edonkey minus spyware and not installing ucmore option just untick it in options ! :D
 
yes, just as VIPER mentioned.

PS
incidently XOLOX is back up & is probably the best peer2peer to use for anything not on eDonkey (sharereactor). It was my fav program till they decided to shut it down (& even then it worked with a hack better than any other peer2peer client).
I just downloaded the new version last week & as fast as ever. Highly recommend it for all your download needs.
(eDonkey works best only for those files found on sharereactor)
 
lol, it doesn't sameoldstuff.
Besides it would then find its spyware & delete itself lol.

But if it did, you would notice it as it tries to communicate back home (if you have a good firewall).
 
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