http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: Spyware in AdvancedWindowsCarePro? en Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:21:09 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-6615 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:10:41 +0000 goodgotd 6615@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>maybe somebody should point out that they should at least honor the activation enough to reactivate during the advertised 90 day gotcha-sucker period. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-6614 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:09:05 +0000 goodgotd 6614@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Huh. Yeah, really dumb stunt, but the real tick-me-off was after I gave up and tossed it off the hdd. see the end of the post for that one....</p> <p>90 days or one auto-update, that's what it did to me. Not that I really care, had it a couple days and never got into the 'what it did' at all- fired it up a few days after the giveaway and it blared out the 'update available' spiel.</p> <p>Like a d****d fool I said OK, and was sent directly to trial. do not pass go, forget the nickel. (the one GAOTD had me download was .901 when I looked, the update was .902, and nothing *I* could figure out brought it back)</p> <p>So I nuked it all, downloaded the personal version and maybe will reinstall it.</p> <p>also I sort of agree with the post on the download page saying</p> <p>"This is NOT free… licence expires in 3 months. Not impressed!"</p> <p>As the page had the full price listed, while the 'free' account was 1/4 the length of the standard rental-for-updates (and, since the updates eat that....) and when I uninstalled it I got a page offering the *same* period for a 'trial' for *free* well after the install date was gone....</p> <p>Nope, whatever good points this might have, I didn't have a chance to find them.</p> <p>-Bob </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2600 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:45:34 +0000 BuBBy 2600@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Easy come... easy go...</p> <p>Sounds like the AWC registration stunt - is going to create a lot of word of mouth feedback to others. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot... twice. (stopping to reload between feet).</p> <p>It amazes me that given the opportunity to create a fantastic, positive impression and have possibly thousands of new users become customers and tell everyone how great a product is - and companies will choose to give away an "older &#38; bug filled" version rather than their latest and greatest - or try to limit and cripple a "free giveaway" just isn't a clever business move.</p> <p>Maybe if they gave users double what anyone expected - and provided over the top service - users would become customers, and give glowing testimonials bringing even more customers to the business.</p> <p>Oh well. Maybe one day they will learn it's easier to make friends giving out free apples that don't have worms. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2591 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:04:33 +0000 terflip 2591@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hey Malawibob, and the others, I had the same thing with the registration.</p> <p>Looks like a lot of us lost it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2587 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:44:47 +0000 spiegelj2007 2587@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>my registration was gone after 4-5 days </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2577 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:30:39 +0000 Saskia 2577@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Indeed, I confirm that I have the same problem: suddenly lost my registration after 3 days. Seems Thunderstroke, Malawibob and I are not alone in this case: comments keep piling up on the AdvancedWindows download page.<br /> Lee, any answers? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2511 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:20:29 +0000 Thunderstroke 2511@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello Malawibob</p> <p>Saskia and me have the same problem like you.<br /> Please check out the home-page and look for the comments for Advanced WindowsCare Pro<br /> Go to #269 #275 #276 #278 and #279...<br /> AWC realy was good... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2487 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:48:40 +0000 malawibob 2487@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hey lee,<br /> I got Advanced Windows care Pro v2 the other day and activated it. It did fine. Today I tried to use the program and it tells me my "trial" is over and will not accept an activation key. Have you heard this one before?? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2485 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:43:02 +0000 inneedof1 2485@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well i used my AVG and it found nothing yahooooo :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2483 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:28:27 +0000 inneedof1 2483@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well i will run Avg just in case, thanks :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2471 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:23:02 +0000 Lee 2471@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have a malware problem?</p> <p>How do you know this, infact I don't.</p> <p>NIS2007 SBS &#38; Destroy says the oppsite to you also. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2465 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:43:27 +0000 terflip 2465@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sorry Lee but you have a malware problem. That is what is adding all the things in your system. There are several ways to find them and not all programs can.</p> <p>Try avg or avast anti-virus programs.\\ Good luck </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2464 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:24:19 +0000 Lee 2464@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Like gha! The application added them.</p> <p>Spybot search &#38; destroy and other spyware apps do the same. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2463 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:58:39 +0000 inneedof1 2463@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Oh wow lee i just went there and there are just tons, how did they get in there? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2462 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:39:38 +0000 inneedof1 2462@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ah-ha ok thank you much Lee! Will try this tomorrow :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2447 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:50:21 +0000 DRALAA 2447@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It's a great utility but computer themes become less advanced<br /> but the positive effect is great. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2445 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:28:40 +0000 qrius2noall 2445@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Seems like a great utility,though not without creating some doubts-<br /> I ran it and after exitting this programme,did a SPYWARE BLASTER(ONE OF THE BEST ANTISPYWARE UTILITY)SCAN and was not very happy to note that it has changed IE SETTINGS<br /> for the worse,as shown by the spyware blaster scan report.Being a newbie these kind of situations are kind of scary for me so i enabled full protection by long trusted spyware blaster.</p> <p>The other utility offered by the same site DEFRAG ,being a BETA VERSION too didnot show anything extraordinary as compared to ZILLIONS of GOOD DEFRAG utilities available </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2417 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:25:10 +0000 Lee 2417@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This application adds entries to Internet Explorer.</p> <p>They are lists of 'blocked' websites, those that you should not visit as they are a security risk.</p> <p>Click tools on the tool bar in internet explorer, then internet options, then click security, then click restricted sites, mine is a red circle with a line through it, click sites and you will see lists of sites that are blocked, you can add or remove them as you wish. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2399 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:33:11 +0000 inneedof1 2399@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hmmm, i have tons of those HKEY_USERS things they are just sitting there, i haven't a clue what to do with them. but otherwise the giveaway is great. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2396 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:30:53 +0000 BillW50 2396@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Wow! My Advanced Windows Care Pro doesn't do this. I tried it on another computer just to make sure and that one doesn't either. Sounds like you have something else going on there. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/491#post-2395 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:08:01 +0000 giveawaybadger 2395@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>When I installed this, Kaspersky Antivirus alerted me to the following. I halted it and ran it again and got the same warning. Why is this software trying to mess with my IE security settings, particularly a blacklisted entry for a P0RN site???? This was at the VERY BEGINNING of the install process, right after the GOTD splash screen:</p> <p>Process is trying to delete value in system registry key that belongs to group Internet Security. These keys control Internet security settings.</p> <p>Key: HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1614895754-299502267-682003330-1004\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains-asiansex.com </p>