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Is WinPcap spyware?

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  1. Bob
    Member

    For the Web Stream Pro giveaway:

    When I installed, WinPcap was installed on my coumputer. What is it, and is it a virus/spyware?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. admin
    Key Master

    It's a component which is required to intercept streams, not a spyware. WSRP installs it.

    Posted 1 year ago # | Login to Send PM

  3. Bob
    Member

    Okay, thanks. I was a little worried. Anyways, thanks for the program.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. admin
    Key Master

    We will have a spyware scanner in January as a giveaway, I think:)

    Posted 1 year ago # | Login to Send PM

  5. alex
    Member

    I would suggest not give away Spyware cleaners because we can get free ones which are way better than those that people need to pay for.

    AdAware is one of them for free. Check download.com for Free Spyware cleaners. Lets give away some more useful products. Something like:

    FileScavenger (Saved my RAID-0 when one of the drive went bad abruptly due to bad sectors)
    WinRar (Basically no limit, but would like to have a full version)

    etc...

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. MASA
    Member

    If you do give away spyware scanners/cleaners I would suggest that you don't give away spyware doctor.

    Not a good app. I found it once on a dell computer (fresh from the factory) and it happened to be installing adware and wierd files on the computer.

    I think that if you do give away a spyware cleaner, you should go with ad-aware plus or something.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. Michelle
    Member

    "We will have a spyware scanner in January as a giveaway, I think:)"

    Can you tell us which one? Hopefully it's a good one.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. badzboyz19
    Member

    ok but why we need to enter a name and a key.. you guys know..that is usualy when you are doing..illegal..things you know..that you do such thing as registrig a program like that...?!?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  9. tjchan
    Member

    True pretty much good spyware detectors are free. Windows Defender and as mentioned above AdAware and Spybot Search and Destroy.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  10. Richard
    Member

    I would've said AdAware and Spybot too until I started using A Squared Free.

    On my PC (can't speak for anyone else's!) A Squared Free has consistently bettered both AdAware and Spybot -- in fact, I scrapped SpyBot some time ago because updates were so few and far between (and then AdAware's site had all kinds of weird problems, too).

    I also have Spyware Blaster running in the background; the two together have proved 100% effective.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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