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Stardock Central : Spyware?

Stardock Central : Spyware?

Yet again i found SDMCP lurking in the background tasks, it even has spyware in its properties, this morning (02:50), i boot up and guess what? its removed itself from the background tasks ... its been sitting in the background tasks since the middle of last week when i had to re-install windows / stardock as my hard drive had died, and had to re-install on another drive ... so it operates under its own descions to run or not to run, thats spyware, i want to know what it was / is / will be up to in the background hogging system resources etc ... and no i havent run Stardock Central since last week, so it had NO reason to be in the background.
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Reply #26 Top
"You started out claiming Stardock Central is spyware. It's not."

i didnt , SDMCP i did say was though.

"Then you claimed SDMCP was spyware. It's not. And you can have it not be loaded by default"

I dint (see above) and you told me that ages ago so i never said anymore.

"Then you claimed Galciv doesn't work on Win98. It works fine on Windows 98"

never ever did i say GC never worked on 98

"Then you quoted something i said about the first beta of poltical machine when it was XP only. Yes, that was a month ago. Political Machine betas have worked on Win98 fine for weeks."

Shame you never updated the history then to tell people that it had been fixed

"Like I said, if you just want to complain, go ahead. But I'm not responding anymore. You seem to have an axe to grind."

Fine but i havent 'an axe to grind' i was just raising valid points that you seemed to have ignored in your support so dont twist my words into things i havent said


Reply #27 Top
The title of the thread says you think StarDock is spyware, the first message you posted points a finger at SDMCP, I'm sure thats why Brad said what he said *shrug*

You'll be lucky if Win 98SE is supported much longer, it's old, it's clunky. Half the time drivers are no longer released for it, so don't expect it to be supported forevermore, that's the nature of the beast I'm afraid. I've used all the OS's now since 3.1 (cringe) and XP Professional is the best of the bunch. Its a damn site more stable than 98SE

Just as a helpful pointer... If anyone's suspicious of Spyware, run Lavasoft Ad-aware from their website
Reply #28 Top
run Lavasoft Ad-aware from their website
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Or google for Spybot Search and Destroy.... or even both

Alex


~SDC~