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Anyone here heard of IM Giant?

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MrNutz

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A friend of mine just emailed me and said that the director of her company made a bldg wide decision for everyone to have imgiant installed on their computer. Please don't ask why they decided for everyone to have IM clients... :roll: Has anybody used this?

I did a whois on the website and it is hosted by GoDaddy.com. The program looks like a cheesy knockoff of Trillian and a perfect avenue for spyware.

http://www.imgiant.com/
 
Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Originally posted by: Fausto
Never heard of it. I usually use IP Freely or Hugh G. Rexion.
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I thought you used A.S.S Lesschaps v1.0?
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I've had some issues with the 1.1 patch so I've gone to T-H0.ng++ lately. 😛

 
I've never heard of it but a little looking reveals that the free version is considered adware because it displays banners and other types of advertisments. The add free version costs $4.99.

Speed
 
Originally posted by: speed01
I've never heard of it but a little looking reveals that the free version is considered adware because it displays banners and other types of advertisments. The add free version costs $4.99.
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I wonder if advertisers could install spyware through those banners... :roll:

 
I haven't found anything really negative about it but they do say:

" You also get access to exclusive content such as custom buddy icons, movies, games, flash content, game cheats, and screensavers from Joystick Networks. Also, with the Giant feeds ticker, you can customize sports, news, or current events through RSS and desktop alerts. Keep up to date with your favorite celebrities or breaking news stories."
The extra crap is what I would be concerned with. IMO in a work environment users should not have access to things like movies, games, game cheats ect.

Speed
 
Yeah, that nonsense about celebrities really concerns me. I have been fightning some nasty spyware variants on my friends' windoze PCs lately. I had a real hard time getting rid of one of them b/c it would protect the files it used/replicated with admin rights which i didn't have when I was working on it.

I started monitoring the outbound net traffic from the pc and found out that the spyware was communicating with three http servers. I did a DNS resolve and found out that two of them were some AtoZ celebrity search page. And the other one went directly to the Associated Press's domain... i shoulda figured... :disgust:
 
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