Smiley Central

[dorrity]

I installed Smiley Central and during my regular scans with Spybot, it listed mywebsearch (part of the Smiley Central download) as spyware/malware. The SC company says some companies, i.e. Spybot, wrongfully recognizes Smiley Central as spyware. My question is......why does Spybot label Smiley Central as spyware??

Thanx!
Paula Jo

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

We detect Smileycentral belonging to Funwebproducts and MyWay.MyBar.

Although none of these products claim to be spyware, they do slow your computer down.
All of the products use cookies to track usage, although they claim not to use cookies or anything else to track personally identifiable information.
That being said, I would still recommend uninstalling the SmileyCentral software and other Fun Web Products if you feel your computer runs better without them.
They are found by many spyware removal tools such as Spybot Search and Destroy, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, although they are deemed spyware safe by Aluria Software who created a Spyware SAFE Certification.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot