John,
EXACTLY what I wanted to know about this program, now if someone has a
stellar suggestion I will be set.
Many thanks, have a wonderful day.
John
On Aug 13, 2008, at 8:33 AM, john humphries wrote:
John,
I saw this review and thought that you might find it helpful. I have
not tried the Internet Cleanup 5.0, so I cannot speak first hand on
it.
Best regards,
John H.
derekc says:
Tue Aug 12 11:17:24 PDT 2008
Re: Review: Internet Cleanup 5.0
I bought Internet Cleanup 5.0 early on after its release as I liked
some of the features. It potentially could fill a void for Mac users
on the Internet regarding net security. What it did I liked. But it
is clearly a work in progress and is Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time. I
found some annoying bugs, even more than those mentioned above. I
also found that it missed the boat on the one big feature it should
have nailed down: Identification and control of Tracking Cookies.
(They are deposited into your browser and follow you around to other
sites that know how to access this particular cookie. The idea is to
collect data about your browsing behavior from site to site. The
information is supposedly used by marketing humans so they can
better target you with ads for things you'd be interested in buying.
What really goes on is the question).
The biggest problem with Internet Cleanup 5.0 is that is uses .kext
files, a number of them, which it deposits into your system. This is
a big fat no-no according to Apple. If .kext files are not perfectly
programmed, you end up with that old horror from old Mac OS days
where you have to test which system extension is messing up your
machine. That is indeed the case with Internet Cleanup, where I
found one particular .kext file was conflicting with some standard
Mac OS X system calls.
I ended up turning in my serial number and getting my money back.
Allume were extremely nice about the entire process. But I've been
waiting for several months now for them to update Internet Cleanup
to fix the offending bugs and hopefully soup up their cookie control
system. But nothing has happened! It's like the guy who coded the
program fell off the planet and Allume have no idea how to fix any
bugs. That's a big shame.
I would NEVER recommend this program to anyone at this point. Maybe
if they fix it. But I wouldn't count on it.
On 8/13/08 7:54 AM, "Profile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just read the Consumer report on virus protection, spyware
problems etc. etc. They never cover the Mac well but they did
mention that a vulnerability to the Mac is spyware, that the Mac
users are blase and unconcerned when in fact Safari has no built in
protection for spyware.
So today I get an email from Smithmicro for their Internet Cleanup
5 software that seemingly does one thing, looks for spyware.
Is this a good program, anyone use it, what do you recommend to
handle this problem other than
Many thanks.
John
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