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Creative Ads Spyware/Adware to drivers :(

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2001 3:30 pm
by Darkheart
Just installed the new version of Creative Player for my DAP (known in your neck of the woods as the NOMAD). After installing happened to check task manager and found a program called NewsUpd.exe running in the Creative Directory and using up 94% of the processor resources!

Here's a look at the .ini settings:
PlayMode=3
PlaySpeed=2
PlayRandom=0
[PLAYCENTER2]
AppResource=C:\Program Files\Creative\PlayCenter2\CTP2Res.dll
OEMID=
Version=2.20.04
AppPath=
SilentContentUpdate=1
HasCategory=0
ProductCategory=PLAYCENTER2
MarqURL=www.europe.creative.com
PlayMode=3
PlaySpeed=2
[ListProductCategories]
NumProductCategory=1
ProductCategory1=PLAYCENTER2|PLAYCENTER2
[NewsUpd]
RestoreLoginSessionDisable=0
RestoreEnableAutoDial=0

creepy huh?

Man Creative have got worse and worse with making you do stuff for their drivers now they are building cr*p into the drivers, this is really getting up my nose.

Darkheart

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2001 5:43 pm
by FuNPoLiCe001
once my computer was running really slow, so i went into task manager and i saw this service running called: "notsupposedtobeshown" or something to that extent

i was like "mafudge?! is this a trojan?"

but i went through everything and it wasn't, i still have no idea what that was

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2001 11:05 pm
by Jim Z
/me hugs my TB Santa Cruz...