From: "Bas van den Eijnden" <basvandeneijnden@home.nl>
| For the People that think this is Rouge Anti-Spyware.
| Spywarewarrior says:
| Note on SpywareNuker & pcOrion: Spyware Nuker and pcOrion are re-branded clones of one
| another; both are distributed by TrekBlue/TrekData. Spyware Nuker and pcOrion were
| listed on this page on this page primarily because of issues surrounding Version 1 of
| Spyware Nuker, because of TrekBlue's murky relationship with the adware distributor
| BlueHaven Media, and because of objectionable advertising that used to appear on the
| pcOrion home page.
| Version 1 of Spyware Nuker had a deservedly poor reputation. It was a clone of BPS
| Spyware & Adware Remover, which itself is a rip-off of Ad-aware (1, 2) and Spybot
| Search & Destroy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Moreover, it was prone to ridiculous false positives,
| like the other clones of BPS Spyware & Adware Remover. (Contrary to allegations on the
| Net, no version of SpywareNuker or pcOrion, so far as we can tell, has itself installed
| adware or spyware.)
| In the late spring or early summer of 2004, TrekBlue released a new version of
| SpywareNuker (version 2, also known as SpywareNuker 2004) which is not built on the
| codebase licensed from BPS (1). Testing with this new version -- also released under
| the name pcOrion -- indicates that it does detect and remove spyware and adware.
| Moreover it is not prone to inexcusable false positives, as its predecessor was. Thus,
| the new SpywareNuker 2004 is a significant improvement on the justly discredited
| original version of SpywareNuker. Still further, the objectionable advertising on the
| pcOrion home page has been removed, and TrekBlue/TrekData has taken steps to clarify
| the history of its relationship with BlueHaven, which is no longer a TrekBlue/TrekData
| company. (1, 2)
| Given that the issues surrounding Spyware Nuker and pcOrion have been addressed by the
| TrekBlue/TrekData, we can no longer consider Spyware Nuker or pcOrion to be
| "rogue/suspect" anti-spyware.
| Domains: nuker.com, spywarenuker.com, trekblue.com, trekdata.com
| (Note: other domains associated w/ SpywareNuker & pcOrion include: 1spybot.com,
| add-aware.biz, adawareinfo.com, catlab.us, dbxml.org, endadware.com,
| nukerdownloads.com, nuke-spyware.com, spy-bot.biz, spybotfinder.com, spywarealert.com,
| spyware-killer.com, spynuke.com, spywarenuker.us, spyware.pcwash.com) [A: 6-26-04 / U:
| 9-24-04]
That may be so but your paid referral post to SpyWare Nuker is spam and is not appreciated.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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