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First time I’ve seen a New England company using a Samoan domain name. Of course, I know it’s permissible…

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Globalization?

Alan

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Please Note – It has been revealed that this download contains Adware/Spyware.
Please read the relevant posts in this thread before deciding to download.

SC Video Decompiler
Powerful Video Decompiler that supports decompiling video files to extract the individual image frames. It supports decompiling from (AVI,MPEG, WMV, ASF) to (BMP, GIF, PNG (Portable Network Graphics), JPG and JPEG, TIFF, EMF, WMF and much more.
Promotional Offer Expires Soon normally $49.00

Features

Friendly interface allows performing the following operations:

• Conversion of different video formats
• Video Decompiling (Supports decompiling to the following image formats (BMP,GIF,PNG,JPEG,TIFF,EMF, WMF,PCX,TGA,J2K,RAS) and much more)
• Easy to use (just one click of a mouse)
• Convert multiple video files at once (Batch Conversion).
• Registered users get free upgrades for one year
  [/list]I’ve d/l this (12MB) but not had chance to try it yet. All the software on this site appears to be Free Promotional Offer. Anyone had any experience with it?

  Alan

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Warning.

When I tried downloading from this site my anti-spyware gave me this alert.

Updated: December 13, 2005 04:41:31 PM PST
Type: Adware
Name: Zango Search Assistant
Version: 6.8.196.0/6.9.95.0
Publisher: 180solutions inc
Risk Impact: Low
File Names: InstallerShell.exe JadeShadowInstall.exe JadeShadowSetup.exe ZangoInstaller.exe ZangoJadeShadow.exe ZangoTVTimes.exe zanu.exe
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

BehaviorAdware.ZangoSearch is an adware program that monitors the contents of Internet browser windows. It opens the Web pages of partner sites when certain keywords are detected in Internet search or shopping browser windows. This program also installs files related to Adware.180Solutions.
SymptomsYour Symantec product detects the files as Adware.ZangoSearch.

Caveat Emptor. (I’m not sure what the Latin is for ‘Person Downloading Something Free Beware’)

Regards,
Kevin Bell

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… It certainly appears to carry unwanted “extra baggage”. I’ll append this info to the original post. However, I note this from a usenet posting:

“It seems that it is the Video Converter, not the Video Decompiler, that contains the Zango component (it isn’t stealth, it’s stated right up front in the first install screen). However, even in this case, Zango can be uninstalled without apparently impacting the functionality of the program. Their EULA does not prohibit doing this.

Zango does not uninstall cleanly, though (is anyone surprised?). Spybotting afterwards removes what its uninstall didn’t.

On the other hand, though, the Video Decompiler also states right up front that it is installing a different Ad/Spyware, WhenU Save. The initial screen says that you cannot remove this adware without removing the decompiler, but Software Club’s EULA, which states that “This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties…” does NOT prohibit this removal as part of the license.

WhenU Save won’t uninstall through the Add/remove Programs GUI, and although Spybot doesn’t detect it, Spyhunter does and points to the relevant registry entries and files.

However, by removing the WUS manually, the decompiler runtime errors out.

(Not to be argumentative, but how did you miss the initial disclaimer about WUS?) ”

> ‘Person Downloading Something Free Beware’

So true. But ad/spyware is certainly not limited to “free”. Many sites/ vendors expect you to also pay for the privilege!

Alan

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