Re: Latest Daemon Tools comes with adware

[Blake Girardot <girardot () mac com>]

This is just caused by the "Search Bar" option.

You can just opt to not install that part of the package, it is not required for 
DT to work.

Please see this forum section of the deamon tools website:
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/f33-daemon-tools-searchbar.html

Regards,
Blake Girardot


Frankie Li wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I love to use daemon tools and have just downloaded the latest version from
> the offical site.  Immediate finish the installation, I click an option to
> install an attached advance search function.  However, the so call advance
> search function is aka Adware called WhenU.Save.
>
> I can't uninstal it from the control panel until I use the Process Explorer
> to kill all relevent processes of WhenU.Search and WhenU.Save.
>
> I than also downloead a trial version of CounterSpy (will active 15 
> days) to remove all the
> remaining files, registry key and folders.
>
> Beware guys! I am quite upset to see daemon tools becoming a adware 
> spreader...
>
> Frankie Li (fli () cheesy ca)
> pgp fingerprint: DC81 3B3B 77D3 99A9 D766  89FE 0317 FDA7 5FBA 9297
>
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