Ares Galaxy P2P

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shareaza is currently the most popular p2p tool, kazaa lite is also pretty
good, though it's pretty hard to find.
 
["NoWhereMan"; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:50:45 GMT]
too many
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Too many? AFAIK, the install gives you the option to not install one
program. There's no other spyware that I know of.
 
J44xm said:
Too many? AFAIK, the install gives you the option to not install one
program. There's no other spyware that I know of.
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I installed it a few months ago when trying to decide which P2P program to
use (finally decided on KCEasy) and it installed 5 different spyware
components :o( (Spybot is my friend <g>)

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Steven said:
I installed it a few months ago when trying to decide which P2P program to
use (finally decided on KCEasy) and it installed 5 different spyware
components :o( (Spybot is my friend <g>)

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
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What KCEasy has 5 spyware components or is it Ares youa re talking about?
 
I'll tell you what; I will be the guinea pig. I will download and
install it, without that added "bonus," and run AdAware and Spybot S&aD,
and will get back to you.

: @news.optusnet.com.au:
:
: > People talk about it highly but does anyone know how much spyware it
has.
: >
: > www.aresgalaxy.org
:
: See: http://www.zeropaid.com/ares/
: Check the bottom of the page- Does Ares have spyware?
:
 
I opted out of the NavExcel when I installed. I then ran AdAware,
Spybot S&D, and McAfee. There is good news, bad news, and worse 1. No virus detected. Good news.
2. Spybot S&D found nothing. Good news, but only because of AdAware;
3. AdAware found 1 cookie from realmedia, 1 cookie from statcounter, 10
reg deys from NavExcel, 1 folder from NavExcel, and * files from
NavExcel. Bad News.
4. After running the bot killers, I attempted to run Ares. I get taken
to a google page that says there is no such page. There is a player,
but you must have something to play. some other link it took me to was
to download some p2p programs for a fee.
In summary, mention of this program does not belong in this newsgroup.
It is Spyware of the worse kind, and installs the crap even when you
tell it not to, then disables the P@P that it is supposed to have once
you clean the computer. I will stick to eMule for now. -PK-


"PuppyKatt"
: I'll tell you what; I will be the guinea pig. I will download and
: install it, without that added "bonus," and run AdAware and Spybot
S&aD,
: and will get back to you.
:
: : : @news.optusnet.com.au:
: :
: : > People talk about it highly but does anyone know how much spyware
it
: has.
: : >
: : > www.aresgalaxy.org
: :
: : See: http://www.zeropaid.com/ares/
: : Check the bottom of the page- Does Ares have spyware?
: :
:
:
 
PuppyKatt said:
I opted out of the NavExcel when I installed. I then ran AdAware,
Spybot S&D, and McAfee. There is good news, bad news, and worse 1. No virus detected. Good news.
2. Spybot S&D found nothing. Good news, but only because of AdAware;
3. AdAware found 1 cookie from realmedia, 1 cookie from statcounter,
10 reg deys from NavExcel, 1 folder from NavExcel, and * files from
NavExcel. Bad News.
4. After running the bot killers, I attempted to run Ares. I get
taken to a google page that says there is no such page. There is a
player, but you must have something to play. some other link it took
me to was to download some p2p programs for a fee.
In summary, mention of this program does not belong in this newsgroup.
It is Spyware of the worse kind, and installs the crap even when you
tell it not to, then disables the P@P that it is supposed to have once
you clean the computer. I will stick to eMule for now. -PK-
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Are you sure you opted out of NavExcel? Did the same and AdAware found
nothing at all.
 
Tritoneur said:
Are you sure you opted out of NavExcel? Did the same and AdAware found
nothing at all.
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Aaa, wait minute.....I downloaded Ares LITE which has no media player but
works OK for P2P only.
 
["PuppyKatt"; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:28:28 GMT]
4. After running the bot killers, I attempted to run Ares. I get taken
to a google page that says there is no such page.
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There's an error in the latest version (or in one of the latest ones) that
puts a bad URL there. Check out the beginning of it.
There is a player, but you must have something to play.
Huh?

some other link it took me to was to download some p2p programs for a
fee.
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Soooo ... don't click the links? Why even USE the Web browser?
In summary, mention of this program does not belong in this newsgroup.
It is Spyware of the worse kind, and installs the crap even when you
tell it not to, then disables the P@P that it is supposed to have once
you clean the computer.
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Your experience of the program seems a bit too unusual. I've been using
Ares without any problems for several months now. The P2P aspect of the
program works just fine. (There is also Ares Lite, but I prefer the
original because it uses less RAM while open. Also, there's Ares's
brother, Warez.)
 
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