Doing this, is not for the faint-hearted, either. It took me several times, deleting both of these programs, in the registry, before they were finally gone. I found out that this Foistware was a rootkit issue, much harder to locate and remove. Then, I started researching, found AdwCleaner and that did help, but, I still had Sweet Packs. I tried Malwarebytes' Chameleon and still Conduit was there, as was Sweet Packs. I had to get into the Registry, to achieve this, too! I tried using Malwarebytes, that didn't work, the program simply kept on scanning and making no progress. I took me almost a week, to get rid of them. I downloaded, I think it was Avast's Free version and I got the Conduit and Sweet Packs added to my PC, without asking for permission or even notifying that these two Foistwares, would be installed, as well. I had missed your first article, written early in 2013. A great little program, rendering a smart service to the unwary.īob. I installed it and it runs unobtrusively in the background, and unchecks those slimy, checked tick-boxes that we all know so well.
Gizmo's TechSupportAlert investigated a small program named "Unchecky", found it good, and offered it. These days I seldom venture to download a program, but just make do with what I've got. I also wrote to FileHippo, also one of the best in the past, for carrying programs with foistware, without a warning, from which one is unable to opt out, as it is now included in the EULA! - stuff like Open Candy, AVG Toolbar, Ask Toolbar, Conduit, Delta etc etc. Odd that I am unable to log in to see Avast!'s reply to my ticket: my username and password, hitherto fine, no longer work. I made no bones that Avast! had now lost it's good standing and integrity as well. I wrote Avast! a very straightforward email telling them I left Avira mid-term, with 6 months subscription left, for sinking so low, only to find that who I thought was way above such sordid practices, was also there. (I am beginning to HATE that word "NOW"!) It took me five months to get a refund - through a third party activist. Now one has an informed choice.Įven good names like Avast! and Avira are now popping up adds from subscription AV programs and from iobit I got a purchased program with 75% of the interface taken up with an advertisement for another "Buy NOW" program. Gizmo's site still carries such freeware, but along with a warning, which is great and acceptable. This is a bad-news trend - and a bad reflection - on freeware. You wrote: "The problem is especially bad at CNET's site, and they deserve to be shunned and scorned for it." I stopped going anywhere near CNet over a year ago. thank you for the vehement expressions of horror, frustration and disgust, which mirror my sentiments exactly.
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