Comparison of Unwanted Software Installed by P2P Programs
A great analysis of what spyware and other crap is installed with various P2P software.
From the author's (Benjamin Edelman) website: "Request a peer-to-peer filesharing program, and you may be surprised what else gets installed too. I've tested five major P2P programs and analyzed their bundled software. Licenses stretch to as long as 22,000+ words and 180+ on-screen pages. Some P2P apps add additional programs disclosed only in license agreement scroll boxes. And it's not uncommon for a P2P app to create thousands of registry entries. But at least one major P2P program bundles no extra software at all.
My full article analyzes what programs come with what extra software. I have also posted screen-shots of each screen of the lengthy license agreements, and I've noted scores of license anomalies such as broken links, missing section-heading formatting and line breaks, important omissions, and surprisingly one-sided substantive provisions."
Found on Boing Boing.
Posted by arkwolf at March 10, 2005 12:40 PM | TrackBack