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ImgBurn - full of OpenCandy and other crap
Josh:
I just installed imgburn and while I had to de-select the opencandy stuff, I do not have any "extra" things installed. I tested it with an installation monitor and the only files/folders created/installed were the imgburn files.
Windows 8.1.1 pro
techidave:
I just last week downloaded the current version of ImgBurn from their servers. I deselected the Conduit stuff. I have noticed a problem with that machine but I better double check it to make sure.
As Carol said, this will be a deal killer for me too if they continue to add known malware to their installer. Its bad enough that we have to put up with Open Candy. :(
Stoic Joker:
That would be very odd because the page and hashes must be generated according to where they are sending the download from. I definitely clicked the direct ImgBurn server link.
Just downloaded another copy this morning.
The download link was: http://download.imgburn.com/SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe
The file hashes matched those publish but it was a different file to the two files I downloaded yesterday. They must have a script that updates the page periodically and provides a range of different downloads. Yesterday morning I was unlucky and go SearchProtect bundled which is pretty scummy!
-Carol Haynes (April 25, 2014, 03:24 AM)
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The think I'm wondering is does OpenCandy come completely pre bundled with it's offers, or does it have a phone home on launch to see what's hot today type function? Option two would allow the size to remain consistent and the behavior to vary wildly.
Carol Haynes:
Not sure about OpenCandy but 7-zip will unpack the installer - and on three downloads in two days of the same version I have found three different things bundled inside the installer package plus OpenCandy. The one I downloaded today included the ASK Toolbar which is at best a pest and at worst malware.
I suppose it isn't impossible that OpenCandy itself is providing random crap on the system during install - but I thought it was supposed to always allow you to deselect things you don't want - so where did Conduit come from?
Renegade:
OC when I looked into it in depth is harmless.
https://cynic.me/2011/04/03/opening-up-opencandy/
You can opt out easily.
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