I must admit to being confused about references to spyware in ES5 called
Excalibur. Adaware, spybot, TDS-3 and etrust virus scan showed zilch after
several test installs of this program. Nothing in my win98 startup -
although I didn't tick run at start up in ES5.

Then I scanned the registry. Excalibur appears to be the name given to ES5
for its registered componants. It is NOT the same as the Excalibur trojan
which locates itself into the registry run services. The registry entries
relate to ES5 program settings and don't look particularly unusual.

As far as I can tell those claiming ES5 is installing the spyware program
Excalibur (which is actually a trojan) are talking bollocks of the highest
order.