What does Spybot Blcok the Spyhunter website?

[blues]

it seems that the enigmas pcthreat sites are removed from hphosts hostsfile and that enigma are cleaning up. it was me that reported the pcthreat sites to hphosts but i dont like that they are removed as some of their sites is misleading but i dont think spyhunter is malware. you should just wait for someone from the team to respond to you about this.

[swanlee]

You guys really need to chill on this type of practice it does not make me think very highly of Spybot if it is making opinionated judgment calls on what it thinks is bad marekting.


I found a post on here from a mod about it as well,

http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.p...2&postcount=11

"Hello,

Yes, and we detect SpyHunter also.
So you have decide which program you like to use.
The free Spybot Search & Destroy or the SpyHunter you need to pay for.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot"


You have got to be kidding me? What kind of freaking attitude is this? Anyone should know that there is not a SINGLE piece of AV/malware software that will catch everything, thus it is wise to layer Malware\AV software to catch as much as possible.

This type of attitude as seen above I would call un professional. If spyhunter is NOT malware spybot should not detect it as such.

I find it ironic Spybot blocks spyhunter because of questionable marketing tactics but yet spybot detects spyhunter as MALWARE where it is not?

How can I trust spybot when it falsely labels software as malware? And how can people that work on spybot recommend using only 1 piece of software to keep there pc safe with a straight face?

[129260]

not a SINGLE piece of AV/malware software that will catch everything, thus it is wise to layer Malware\AV software....

AV as in antivirus? You are only supposed to have one antivirus, but you can have multiple spyware programs. As for this program Spyhunter being detected as malware, I think that is a fair call. You yourself said they have weird practices, honestly why would you pay for software that is known or was known to be shaky? Also, I would not advise purchasing/installing any software that was once well known and considered rogue anti-malware. If its labeled once, no CEO or anything will change that unless the software was rewrote from the ground up. Which it was not.

I also do not understand why you are complaining here either, as if you do not like spybot's result, and do not consider it dangerous, right click and ignore the threat. Honestly, it's not that big of a deal. No one had a gun to your head and said remove it. If that was the case, what would be the point in antispyware programs if you could not choose what to remove? You can choose to ignore or remove it. Its up to you. You are the user, and it's up to you.

I think this topic should be removed or moved to the tavern as this is not a place for discussion/arguing.

[swanlee]

AV as in antivirus? You are only supposed to have one antivirus, but you can have multiple spyware programs. As for this program Spyhunter being detected as malware, I think that is a fair call. You yourself said they have weird practices, honestly why would you pay for software that is known or was known to be shaky? Also, I would not advise purchasing/installing any software that was once well known and considered rogue anti-malware. If its labeled once, no CEO or anything will change that unless the software was rewrote from the ground up. Which it was not.

I also do not understand why you are complaining here either, as if you do not like spybot's result, and do not consider it dangerous, right click and ignore the threat. Honestly, it's not that big of a deal. No one had a gun to your head and said remove it. If that was the case, what would be the point in antispyware programs if you could not choose what to remove? You can choose to ignore or remove it. Its up to you. You are the user, and it's up to you.

I think this topic should be removed or moved to the tavern as this is not a place for discussion/arguing.

I think you fail to understand, Spybot added Enigma's websites to my hosts files as localhost when I immunized, this broke spyhunters ability to update it's software and my ability to access Enigma's website to trouble shoot the problems. When you immunize it does not warn you or give you the option to not immunize specific websites that it has in it's list.

I did and have been unchecking the box that detected spyhunter as malware but when it immunized spyhunter from my computer that was the last straw.
This was a very recent update that added engima's site to the immunize list

I would still like some REAL explanations to how the spyhunter program was ever actually malware and why enigma's websites are dangerous to my computer?.

I don't understand why more people aren't a little ticked at this, spybot is purposely falsely classifying a competitor as malware and then preventing people going to a competitors site. And then people are saying it's ok because that competitor in the past was shady. Aren't these tactics spybot is using a little shady to?

All I hear is over aggressive marketing and that people do not like the CEO's attitude. This still does not make the program malware.