Weather bug- Spyware?

[Nahotnoj]

Today i got the latest AIM upgrade, and installed weatherbug. its pretty cool, but it asked stuff like my houshold income and things. A friend on AIM told me that its spyware, so im virusscanning , but havent found anything yet. I kindof believe him.

What should i do?

[Darkslayer633]

I'm not sure if the weather bug is spyware but if you want to find out one of the best spyware destroyers is
spybot search and destroy1.3
also a goos thing to use with this is ad aware 6.0
I have both and they keep my computer in tip top shape

[hammocksleeper]

ALL "weather bugs" are SPYWARE.

You won't find it with a virus program though. Get ad-aware and run it. Run spybot also. Get these programs at download.com. Just search the name, these programs will come up.

[BlackHawk]

Get rid of it immediately, believe me it is Spyware, and it's really a crappy program too (I had it once, does you no good).

Like the others I suggest using Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/), it's a great program and their forums are very very helpful.

[Fenguin]

They package spyware with AIM now? o.O
Mmm, I love Trilly even more now. :D

[Nahotnoj]

Do all of these programs cost money? I downloaded a spyware detecting prgram once, and after detecting multiple programs, i tried to delete the spyware, but it told me that the free trial does not include the delete function, and that i would have to buy the full version to clean the files off of my computer.

why the f*ck is aim packaging spyware?!

[Darkeggy]

My Adaware gives me more spyware everytime i use it :(

[Nahotnoj]

HOLY SHIT!!!! I downloaded adaware, and it found 124 files...

[hammocksleeper]

My Adaware gives me more spyware everytime i use it :(No it doesn't.

Ad-Aware
http://www.download.com/Ad-aware/3000-8022-10214379.html?tag=lst-0-1

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-3

Download these two programs. They are completely full-functioning free-ware programs, and the most widely used (probably the best). These programs do not come with spyware of their own. I recommend not using any other spyware search programs.

[Nahotnoj]

Yay! succesfully quarintined and removed all files

:)

[Seal]

grats to you then.

[Nahotnoj]

Wait, weather bug is still there! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[Darkslayer633]

u still have to uninstall weather bug its a program to do it in the control pannel

[BlackHawk]

u still have to uninstall weather bug its a program to do it in the control pannel

^ this man here is a smart cookie.

[Exedore]

AIM has been packaged with spyware for a good while now. I know AIM 5.5 installs Wild Tangent (I still can't get the damn icon off my control panel, even though the program is long gone) and Viewpoint media player. This is why i'm still using AIM 4.3. Check http://www.oldversion.com if you want it.

As for spyware/virus/trojan removal, I recommend Hijack This (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html) (tutorial (http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/)). It won't remove all the spyware files, but it will remove all the settings that allow it to be run automatically. Once it does that, you can just do a search for the files and remove them manually.

[Nahotnoj]

AIM has gone evil...

[Neo]

Me likes my Deadaim and Aim 5.5

-Neo

[bluemicrobyte]

HOLY SHIT!!!! I downloaded adaware, and it found 124 files...>LOL<

AIM has been packaged with spyware for a good while now. I know AIM 5.5 installs Wild Tangent (I still can't get the damn icon off my control panel, even though the program is long gone) and Viewpoint media player. This is why i'm still using AIM 4.3. Check http://www.oldversion.com (http://www.oldversion.com/) if you want it.

As for spyware/virus/trojan removal, I recommend Hijack This (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html) (tutorial (http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/)). It won't remove all the spyware files, but it will remove all the settings that allow it to be run automatically. Once it does that, you can just do a search for the files and remove them manually.To get rid of stuff on the controll pannel use Easy Cleaner

Wait, weather bug is still there! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!>LOL<

silly people with so much spyware. KILL THEM ALL! DIE SPYEWARE!

I didnt know weather bug was spyware, I just deleted it caus I didnt like it. never saw it again.

[overdramatic]

do you guys know if Weather Cast is spywear too?

[hammocksleeper]

ALL "weather bugs" are SPYWARE.
Every single fucking weather, time, humidity thing that sits on your start bar is spyware.

[overdramatic]

omg i ran ad-aware and it found 666...............

[XTERMIN8OR1]

Ad-aware and Spybot Search And Destroy are good. I use them together with my Norton AntiVirus, Norton Firewall and Norton Internet Security to keep my computer free of viruses and spam.

[Neo]

SPyware Blaster is also a recommended program.

-Neo

[Cygnus]

Every single fucking weather, time, humidity thing that sits on your start bar is spyware.
Well except for that stupid one in the bottom right hand corner. Of course that just might be microsoft spying on you! :)

[Spdstr]

AIM has gone evil...
AIM has always been evil, get MSN or Yahoo ;).

Also didnt' you notice AOL (Explorer) has you waiting 20 minutes for a page to load because of all the ads it gives you? lol

Member,
~ Spdstr

P.S. NEVER HAD AOL, my friend did and it sucks ;).

omg i ran ad-aware and it found 666...............
lol, my friends computer found 2000 some, he had to restart his computer so it could find em all, also if you notice everytime you go on you get adware and spyware, so do it often, also if you notice you still get spyware you may be the victim of a hack (I had one too, I think it's called THC_HACK) you can download a program somewhere that "crushes" it, thus getting rid of it ;).

Member,
~ Spdstr

[Nahotnoj]

AIM has always been evil, get MSN or Yahoo ;).

Also didnt' you notice AOL (Explorer) has you waiting 20 minutes for a page to load because of all the ads it gives you? lol

Member,
~ Spdstr

P.S. NEVER HAD AOL, my friend did and it sucks ;).


lol, my friends computer found 2000 some, he had to restart his computer so it could find em all, also if you notice everytime you go on you get adware and spyware, so do it often, also if you notice you still get spyware you may be the victim of a hack (I had one too, I think it's called THC_HACK) you can download a program somewhere that "crushes" it, thus getting rid of it ;).

Member,
~ Spdstr
no, i dont, just because i use AIM doesnt mean that aol is my interent browser. a lot of people use AIM.

[Spdstr]

no, i dont, just because i use AIM doesnt mean that aol is my interent browser. a lot of people use AIM.
Yah, I know, I meant that AOL has been "evil" for a while now ;)

Member,
~ Spdstr

[Modred]

Yah, I know, I meant that AOL has been "evil" for a while now ;)

Member,
~ Spdstr

AOL hasn't necessarily been "evil," they just have a horrid program. Anyone else remember AOL 5.0? Crashed more computers than it got online. 6.0 wasn't much better, but it avoided a lawsuit. Basically, AOL needs to rework everything from the ground up and cut the extra junk. Then they might become "un-evil" again.