Bearshare Software Contains Spyware and Adware

David Polanco
A previous resident of Del Rio Texas now living in the San Antonio. Currently President for Spyglass Hill Condominiums, and partnered with Emocium Inc.

Bearshare Software Contains Spyware and Adware

Oct 18th, 2006 3:00:26 pm - Subscribe
Mood: good
Music: New Order - Regret

Explains how Spybot located adware and spyware located within Bearshare's ad supported client. Beware of the Zango software installation.

Company: Musiclab
Product: Bearshare
Threat: PUPS

Company product URL:
http://www.bearshare.com

Functionality
Supposed to be a free , adsupported client for the Gnutella p2p network.

Description
Running Bearshare requires the installation of Zango. Uninstalling Zango will disable Bearshare.

During installation the checkbox for bening "18 or older " is already checked, this is not a valid for an installer. Also the Bearshare Eula strangely forbids members of phantom companies from using bearshare.

Bearshares website is also registered through domains by proxy which is also not a valid option for a proper company.

Personally
I noticed with BearFlix and not Bearshare, that it has popups after a few minuites after one loads up the program. Plus on the splash page there are banner advertisements.

Comments 6 | Post A Comment

frost - October 18th, 2006
Spyware sucks. Thats why I stick with BitTorrent downloading. 100% Spyware free for UTorrent.

Bearshare has become too full of virus's and fake files plus their company is sleezy by knowingly incorperating spyware into their software.

--FrosT

j2227 - October 20th, 2006
hey, thanks for the comment =)

davidc - October 24th, 2006
Check out my blog. EA did the same thing with battlefield 2142 almost anyways

anonymous - October 24th, 2006
instead of bearshare, use shareza or limewire, i think they are free from spyware and such thing

anonymous - December 16th, 2006
Err...was the post written in non English language, ran through Babelfish and pasted here?

anonymous - October 14th, 2007
I have been using bearshear and been happy with it. I accidently erased zango off my computer. Now bearshare won't work. How can I fix this?

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