The Fall to the Darkside
More and more the antispyware vendors fall into the pit of darkness. First it was Aluria, no both Pest Patrol and Ad-aware have given in to the “pressures” of WhenU. That’s right, both programs have suddenly removed all reference to WhenU from their databases as well as removing the definitions from their programs. For those that don’t know, here is an excerpt from Symantec’s database:
Once Adware.WhenU is executed, it monitors your Web-browsing habits and displays targeted advertisements when you go to Web pages that are relevant to the advertisement in question.
Adware.WhenU can update itself without your knowledge.
This adware program must be manually installed. However, there are several known programs that have Adware.WhenU within them and that install it as the program itself is installed.
What makes this even worse is that Lavasoft is attempting to cover this up and is deleting every post in their forums that even metions this! Everyday that Mac Mini looks better and better.