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HotShield is a fake VPN Service
Gamezertruth:
I was one of the users of the HotShield program , which I've used it in order to surf the Internet, I've used it for several years, and in 2013 I had a doubt about this HotShield program and what's HotShield program have to do in our system ?
They claim that there the program to give safe surfing on the Internet with the user's identity to hide, / IP address or change to a new one? But this is nonsense, the company itself not protect anyone on the Internet it is to help us to get on with the Google Redirect pages with their own toolbar ....
With a payment page after it was added to the newer versions in the beginning of 2013, I noticed that there was something strange happens when I have to turning on a HotShield program and then i have to turning off and have do a scan with combofix’s pick up an infected dll file on my pc! & Every time you use this HotShield program will get the same infected dll file! so don’t use it anymore :) just Uninstall programs from the system !
HotShield is a spy company :smiley: Get rid of them and do not pay even one penny :artist:
I have discovered the secrets of that company in 2013 and now been confirmed. :smiley: http://lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/company/blog/how-to-remove-hotspot-shield
Samson:
Bundleware seems to be the business model employed by many freeware distributors. The addition of toolbars, search engines, changing homepages and other third party programs in the installer package. Some sites, like MajorGeeks.com for example. have taken to highlighting these bundled packages in their listings to help users identify them.
"This program is advertising supported and may offer to install third party programs that are not required for the program to run. These may include a toolbar, changing your homepage, default search engine or other third party programs. Please watch the installation carefully to opt out."
Samson.
Shane:
I seem to be one of the few freeware programs that dont exclude that crap LOL
While I could add a toolbar and make some money, it would also hurt my reputation. I cant stand the toolbars and crap, so why would I do that to my users? I would rather build a pro version of something and sell it rather than use a toolbar.
Shane
Gamezertruth:
--- Quote from: Samson on August 03, 2014, 03:01:44 pm ---Bundleware seems to be the business model employed by many freeware distributors. The addition of toolbars, search engines, changing homepages and other third party programs in the installer package. Some sites, like MajorGeeks.com for example. have taken to highlighting these bundled packages in their listings to help users identify them.
"This program is advertising supported and may offer to install third party programs that are not required for the program to run. These may include a toolbar, changing your homepage, default search engine or other third party programs. Please watch the installation carefully to opt out."
Samson.
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Thanks for the useful information :smiley:
Gamezertruth:
--- Quote from: Shane on August 04, 2014, 03:12:41 pm ---I seem to be one of the few freeware programs that dont exclude that crap LOL
While I could add a toolbar and make some money, it would also hurt my reputation. I cant stand the toolbars and crap, so why would I do that to my users? I would rather build a pro version of something and sell it rather than use a toolbar.
Shane
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That's right, a few programs are clean, but there are a lot of crap/junk/malware toolbar and software, which targets All users who have surfs the Internet.! We all know that the toolbars are the most a malicious software and the purpose is to break into computers without the user's knowledge and steal data and personal files!
The toolbars will hijack your web browser and maybe your system and should immediately remove any toolbar is within the malware '! And then there is someone’s on your web browser who is spying on you!
For the Pro version are a great idea and do not need anything else except all your programs that are more powerful and wonderful. :tongue: :wink:
keep all good work ;) spin :tongue:
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