It's not the utility of it; it's the idiocy of selecting a name that is so highly likely to get selected by scanners and rejected causing problems for many who are at entry level and get "flummoxed" by warnings and are little prepared to google around to find the answer to why their thing won't work!!
-----Original Message----- From: Tony B [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:25 PM Subject: Re: BigDog slobbers... It seems unlikely those are 'drivers' you're downloading, because Windows comes with all the drivers needed for webcams. More likely it's just software that may enable some advanced features like face tracking. Not necessary at all just to use IM's. I have no idea if bigdog.exe is malware or not. But it's certainly a ridiculously non-descriptive name that sticks out at people in a running tasks list. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:09 PM, RLeeSimon <[email protected]> wrote: > I am flummoxed again. I recently hooked up my Lenovo USB Webcam ...a > nice little device. I went on the website to update to the latest > drivers. While downloading it, I noticed a note on the site. > Apparently, the maker of this (Vimicro) has, within the driver set for > this, a running executable titled "BigDog.exe" which triggers havoc > with many of the spyware and antivirus software packages. Now, what > in the world would make a big player like Lenovo let that kind of > thing through? Of course, why did Sony let a virus get out in its > stuff a while back? Bloatware is not our only problem; what about > slopware? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
