Xupiter

[BoricuaLink33]

is it true that piolet installs Xupiter a browsing plug in? Is this bad?

[geffers]

there is no xupiter in piolet i have run spywareblaster,spybot,adaware and pest patrol and it aint there if you use utc check out the thread over there both pablo and tomster say there is no xupiter and after running a few tests i believe them.

[BoricuaLink33]

According to Vinnie!
Originally posted by Vinnie in the Shareaza forums
It is worth noting that UTC (Unite The Cows) accepts advertisements from Piolet, an application which distributes the Xupiter browser plug-in. This plug-in made headline news for being notoriously difficult to remove, and for updating itself at whim to evade efforts at eradication.

It is also worth noting that Zeropaid promoted Piolet.

I would avoid BOTH web sites (Zeropaid and Unite The Cows), because they seem to have some serious ethical problems.

Before anyone starts criticising BearShare for containing (one) bundled adware product, let me please direct you to the following:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/13452

At the end of the day, bills have to be paid. Zeropaid, Unite The Cows, and BearShare are all in the same boat - we need money to survive. Its how we go about making that revenue and staying in the black that determines our level of ethics and morals.

Let the record show how the two web sites above, and Free Peers, Inc. have treated their users.

[geffers]

install piolet then run spybot etc etc and see what you find vinnie wouldnt be biased now would he...........:wings

[BoricuaLink33]

Ok i installed piolet just to findout if xupiter is bundled with it, i ran ad-aware and it didnt pickup anything so your right thanks for clearing it up!

[Roadblock]

Vinnie has since withdrawn his comments and apologised. This is copied directly from our forums:

Apologies
Please accept my apologies for blaming Piolet for installing the Xupiter plugin. I read a comment on Slashdot that implied Piolet also bundled the product. I did not verify it by installing it, and I have no real evidence other than hearsay.

I would also like to retract my comments regarding Unite The Cows - clearly since Piolet does not distribute the Xupiter plugin there is no impropriety.

As for the developers of Piolet, I appreciate that they have taken the time to join the Gnutella developer community (the GDF) and impart their comments and wisdom, even though their application doesn't operate on the public Gnutella network.



See the entire thread
here (http://www.unitethecows.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=50908#post50908).

[MoonMan]

Well that was brief but interesting.