SSI--Interesting New Spyware Program/Service

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This one is "different".

http://www.spywaredata.com/

It seems this program sends your active running processes to a collection
point and analyzes and compiles them to an anti-Spyware database.

By the time it asks your permission to send the file list, it has already
showed you possible Spyware processes (marked in red).

After running the program, it's hooked in memory and the files can not be
moved or deleted. Well, that's more than a little suspicious to me. Why in
the world would such a program need to remain memory resident? Perhaps it's
just bad coding, or, or...?

I would be interested in what our Spyware experts think of this program.
Goodware, Badware, or Indifferentware? :)

Bob

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Bob said:
This one is "different".

http://www.spywaredata.com/

It seems this program sends your active running processes to a collection
point and analyzes and compiles them to an anti-Spyware database.

By the time it asks your permission to send the file list, it has already
showed you possible Spyware processes (marked in red).
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It didn't do that here. I allowed it to send my info and create a web
page and then I got the red entry.

http://www.spywaredata.com/analyze/analyze_data.php?uniqueid=4185&chk_tbl=01100111110
After running the program, it's hooked in memory and the files can not be
moved or deleted. Well, that's more than a little suspicious to me. Why in
the world would such a program need to remain memory resident? Perhaps it's
just bad coding, or, or...?
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The first time I ran it it stayed in memory after closing, but not
subsequent times. I don't understand this.

I ran Adaware at about the same time and Adaware showed a couple of
bho's that SSI had not noticed, bhocop showed another.
I would be interested in what our Spyware experts think of this program.
Goodware, Badware, or Indifferentware? :)
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Untrustworthyware.

I can't imagine a 'spyware expert' wanting to touch it with a barge
pole.
 
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I've also ran this one and though I wouldn't call it untrustworthy at the
moment, it certainly needs alot of work before it can become as useful as
Spybot S&D et al.

For now, all it does is scan your system, send the info to the authors
webpage, check their database against your system scan, and report what if
anything, it has found to you, for you to deal with manually.

The one thing I cannot understand, is why it wants to upload each program
it's detected running. It should have atleast a basic list of those programs
that are known to be fine (such as my mail server, OE, AB, Tiny PF,
mixer.exe etc), and not want to upload them, as this is very time consuming,
and way too much for a regular dial-up user.

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Regards

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

Keeping it FREE!
 
Steven said:
I've also ran this one and though I wouldn't call it untrustworthy at the
moment, it certainly needs alot of work before it can become as useful as
Spybot S&D et al.
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For now, all it does is scan your system, send the info to the authors
webpage, check their database against your system scan, and report what if
anything, it has found to you, for you to deal with manually.

The one thing I cannot understand, is why it wants to upload each program
it's detected running. It should have atleast a basic list of those programs
that are known to be fine (such as my mail server, OE, AB, Tiny PF,
mixer.exe etc), and not want to upload them, as this is very time consuming,
and way too much for a regular dial-up user.
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Quite. This is what presses my 'paranoid' buttons. It is not too much
to ask that they have heard of AOL or Agent. They haven't heard of
WINDOWS.000 ffs. They ask for far too much information for my liking
and they ask for it on trust.

Imagine if the site was laid out differently, in purple on black and
the URL was haxorsrus. Would you feel happy sending them the info they
ask for?
And how do you know what you are sending them?

I'm currently building an online database aimed at improving financial
security online. Please send me your CC details and all pertinent
passwords...
 
I'm currently building an online database aimed at improving financial
security online. Please send me your CC details and all pertinent
passwords...
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Where!?!? I need some good financial assistance!! <LOL!>

Bob

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