Site Lists P2P Clients Loaded with Spyware

Viruses and worms
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Some P2P programs will infect your PC with adware and spyware when you install them on your PC while others are as clean as a whistle. Find out which from this informative article.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/p2p/

Some myths, as accelarators for P2P applications, are also discussed :wink:

If you’re lazy to read there, at least, check if you’re into the good guys. The following file-swappers have been found not to have any spyware or other advertising parasites bundled into them:

ABC Bittorrent Client
Ares Lite (Ares Lite is clean. Ares from the same company is not)
AudioGnome
Azureus
BadBlue (No spyware, but requires a registration including name and email address. Not recommended)
BitComet
BitSpirit
BitTornado
BitTorrent (See warning below about open source clients)
Blubster 1.2.3 (Later versions include adware)
Burst! BitTorrent Client
CQ_EX
DC++
Direct Connect
EarthStation5
E-Donkey AKA Overnet (Versions prior to 1.2 available on June 1, '05 bundle adware. 1.2 is clean)
E-Mule
Filetopia
giFT
Gnucleus
KCEasy
MediaSeek Lite (Another program, MediaSeek, by the same company does bundle adware)
mldonkey
Morpheus(All third party bundles have been removed from Morpheus as of version 4.9.2. Current versions have an embedded banner ad but install no third party software)
Mute
Phex
Qnext
Shareaza
Soulseek
Torrent Search
TorrentStorm
TrustyFiles (Does install a “casino” bookmark on the desktop.)
Waste
WinMX (The WinMX network has been shut down, although the program is still available)
Zultrax (No spyware. No uninstaller either)

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uTorrent is also clean.

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Thanks, Tech, for post that info. Though I do not use P2P programs, but here is hope that this info will help those that do. :slight_smile:

RejZoR … near the top of the page is this statement: “If you know of a file sharing program not listed here, let me know about that as well and I will test it out.” :wink: