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- If you as the end-user install an application downloaded from internet,
- you give the developers trust in advance.
- A healthy amount of distrust is always good..
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- Freeware should mean Freeware,without any catch.
- But Today, freeware is an abused term.
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- Many programmers use it to get their applications listed and to gain more downloads,while their programs are actually ad-sponsored.
- Many of them use one of the professional advertising systems,i.e. Aureate.
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- OUR DEMAND IS:
- The popular Shareware\freeware pages should add an extra-categorie for Ad-sponsored programs.
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- Q:How do i know if a particular application installs a spyware?
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- A:The publisher must inform you as the end-user about his application beeing ad-sponsored,
- but common rule is that they dont.
- you'll find an frequently updated list of known spyware on our page.
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- www.lavasoft.de
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- Q:I've downloaded a tool that appears to be spyware, but its not on your list
- and Ad-aware finds no suspicious references.
- A:Please send us an download url for the particular program,and we'll check it out.
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- Q:Why dont you just modify the libraries,without removing them.so that the Tool might still work?
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- A:this would mean to reverse engineer the libraries, which is a violation of the license terms.
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- Q:Now what.ADaware found Aureate on my system, and after removing it,Go!zilla is not working anymore.
- if i had knewn before,i would leave it the way it was!!
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- A:Just reinstall Go!zilla(+aureate) :)
- but in my experience, there is always an alternative to any ad-sponsored application. (we will put an list of "alternatives" on our page soon)
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- Q:What are your plans for the next update?
- A:The next version will include Web3000 and CYDoor detection\removal.
- Also an additional quick-scan module will be available to download on our page soon.
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- Please send your questions to contact@lavasoft.de
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