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What the hell is OpenCandy?
wraith808:
For what it's worth, Nod32 blocked 2 internet connections to OpenCandy when installing the latest Photo Resizer with OC.
Stopping the install of OCSetupHlp.dll and any other programs being offered.
Photo Resizer did install even with nod blocking the connection to OC.
Just for your info...
-cmpm (March 29, 2011, 07:21 PM)
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Not sure, but I'd think that's probably for metrics and payment...
cmpm:
Well, no offers of other software came up and Photo Resizer installed and works.
Searching for opencandy or OCSetupHlp.dll came up with no results.
wraith808:
Well, no offers of other software came up and Photo Resizer installed and works.
Searching for opencandy or OCSetupHlp.dll came up with no results.
-cmpm (March 29, 2011, 07:40 PM)
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Not for offers of other software. From looking at the agreement, they have the same concept as other advertisers, i.e. impressions and click through. I wasn't saying that it was to get more offers, but to track impressions. Did it say what the request was? That (other than asking) would seem to be the way to figure out what it was trying to do...
cmpm:
on break from work-
I've tried to find logs of blocked web address' before, but it's not in Nod's log.
The quarantine action or any other action is in the logs, but not blocked sites.
It just pops up a message telling me it blocked something, then disappears.
Maybe I'll install it again and get a snapshot of it, time permitting.
Renegade:
For what it's worth, Nod32 blocked 2 internet connections to OpenCandy when installing the latest Photo Resizer with OC.
Stopping the install of OCSetupHlp.dll and any other programs being offered.
Photo Resizer did install even with nod blocking the connection to OC.
Just for your info...
-cmpm (March 29, 2011, 07:21 PM)
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Thanks for that.
This is really a problem. AV vendors should be focusing on developing technologies that prevent the real bad guys and not this kind of silliness.
You'd think that it would be easy to make a dime... Literally. :(
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