"Juergen Nieveler" <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de> wrote in message
news:Xns93CCB7A6E7B97juergennieveler@nieveler-43544.user.cis.dfn.de...
> "mto" <nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.com> wrote:
>
> > Recently I went looking for an mp3 player myself. Winamp was one of
> > the ones that I investigated. What I found that others had written
> > disturbed me enough that I didn't bother with WinAmp. Google up
> > "WinAmp + spyware" and make your own judgement.
>
> What, pray tell, is so disturbing about "iit sends anonymous usage
> statistics.. but if you disallow that, doesn't attempt to conect to an
> external site."?
>
> The only other reference I've found talks about some of the plugins
> possibly containing spyware - but you can't blame Winamp for that.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...thin%A0results


Read through a couple of the search results pages and you'll see more than
that. I scanned through about 10 pages of results.

Like this one -

<quote>
After years of using WinAmp, I have now deleted it completely from my
machine. The present version contains bugs, spyware, ads and an alliance
with the ever nefarious AOL. Talk about selling out big time.<end>

SOURCE -http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/08292002a

I've seen lots of "free" programs come down the pike. Once they decide that
the only way to make $$ is to sell userdata that have collected or to serve
up ads or to package their product along with Gator and company, they are
forever more untrustworthy. Once a ***** always a ***** as the saying goes.

I don't want that crap on my machine.