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f0dder:
I havent seen a chat program that messes with a web browser, installs spyware or viruses at all. What ones have you tried? I know gaim is perfectly safe, as is trillian, miranda, aim, msn, yahoo, icq and google talk. IRC (mIRC) is also a good chat protocol/series of networks.
-Josh (July 13, 2006, 01:25 PM)
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Actually, AIM for one def. has spywhere included in the install. I am a computer technician during the summer and I know about this one because I, myself, have personally formatted an entire computer and then, reinstalled windows and put AIM on there... Wasn't long before I found things on the computer... Actually, about 5 min's. After installing and launching, I was able to view a few things that I didn't install. Hence, the fact that AIM and yahoo aren't really as safe as you think... Just because  everything looks fine doesn't necessarily mean that it is... I have found that out for sure! lol!
-Renox (July 13, 2006, 11:25 PM)
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Was this a Windows XP or 2000 install without firewall/NAT enabled? If so, perhaps then that was the thing to blame, not AIM. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if there was annoying stuff bundled with AIM.

Josh:
I've never seen a piece of spyware or virus bundled with AIM. I even tried installing the latest version just a few minutes ago, no spyware at all.

Renox:
Here are some things to look at:

http://blogged.the-protagonist.net/2005/11/17/aim-spyware/

I doubt this application would exist if there wasn't spyware...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Chat/Other-Chat-Tools/AIM-Spyware-Remover.shtml

This was caused because of AIM:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=743

Here is some more....
http://www.topsight.net/article.php?story=20040419160504307

Actually, as mouser would say, "Search Google."
you can type in, "AIM spyware" and find your answer...

mouser:
pictures seem to be broken at the moment.

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