Is Earth Station 5 an "abnormal" P2P alternative?

[Secret]

"Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
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|| 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.

Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to see if
anything was missed and let us know.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
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Secret

[Anon]

Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.


> Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to see if
> anything was missed and let us know.
> http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
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> Secret
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[Anon]

Also tried the Cleaner trojan detector. Still no Excalibur.

So to recap, three installs of ES5 including full and beta versions, no
Excalibur showed up with scans of :

Etrust anti virus
Panda online anti virus
TDS 3 anti trojan
The Cleaner anti trojan
Spybot
Adaware

The only references in my registry with 'Excalibur' are related to ES5
functions. No reference in the run services key where the trojan Excalibur
would put an entry. No start up reference to Excalibur unless load with
windows specified.

I suspect they originally called the program Excalibur, then realised a
trojan existed by the same name, renamed it ES5 but didn't bother
reprogramming the registry entries.

"Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
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> Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.
>
>
> > Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to see if
> > anything was missed and let us know.
> > http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
> > ---------------
> > Secret
> >
> >
> >
>
>

[Secret]

"Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
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|| Also tried the Cleaner trojan detector. Still no Excalibur.
||
|| So to recap, three installs of ES5 including full and beta versions,
|| no Excalibur showed up with scans of :
||
|| Etrust anti virus
|| Panda online anti virus
|| TDS 3 anti trojan
|| The Cleaner anti trojan
|| Spybot
|| Adaware
||
|| The only references in my registry with 'Excalibur' are related to
|| ES5 functions. No reference in the run services key where the trojan
|| Excalibur would put an entry. No start up reference to Excalibur
|| unless load with windows specified.
||
|| I suspect they originally called the program Excalibur, then
|| realised a trojan existed by the same name, renamed it ES5 but
|| didn't bother reprogramming the registry entries.
||
|| "Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
|| news:GFAOa.5208$Hf.41451646@news-text.cableinet.net...
||| Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.
|||
|||
|||| Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to
|||| see if anything was missed and let us know.
|||| http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
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|||| Secret

Another possibility the Trojan is added at some point while using the
program, maybe when you enter a profile for the dating service or one of the
other features. Maybe even after a download so you do not notice the file
transfer.
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Secret

[Anon]

There is no trojan. The entry on startup for Excalibur only appears when I
set 'run ES5 on startup'. There is still no sypware or trojan on my system.

It just looks like Excalibur was the name given to the program originally,
then they changed it to ES5 but didn't alter the registry settings.


"Secret" <sendtosecret@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
> news:xLFOa.5588$pY2.44370016@news-text.cableinet.net
> || Also tried the Cleaner trojan detector. Still no Excalibur.
> ||
> || So to recap, three installs of ES5 including full and beta versions,
> || no Excalibur showed up with scans of :
> ||
> || Etrust anti virus
> || Panda online anti virus
> || TDS 3 anti trojan
> || The Cleaner anti trojan
> || Spybot
> || Adaware
> ||
> || The only references in my registry with 'Excalibur' are related to
> || ES5 functions. No reference in the run services key where the trojan
> || Excalibur would put an entry. No start up reference to Excalibur
> || unless load with windows specified.
> ||
> || I suspect they originally called the program Excalibur, then
> || realised a trojan existed by the same name, renamed it ES5 but
> || didn't bother reprogramming the registry entries.
> ||
> || "Anon" <anon@invalid.org-nospam> wrote in message
> || news:GFAOa.5208$Hf.41451646@news-text.cableinet.net...
> ||| Thanks Secret - tried the online test. No Excalibur detected.
> |||
> |||
> |||| Pandasoftware can detect Excalibur, try a free online scan to
> |||| see if anything was missed and let us know.
> |||| http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
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> |||| Secret
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> Another possibility the Trojan is added at some point while using the
> program, maybe when you enter a profile for the dating service or one of
the
> other features. Maybe even after a download so you do not notice the file
> transfer.
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