Flashget

[paul420]

Hello again, im using a dell xps 210 vista premium
 lately spyware terminater is finding somthing called
 flashget HKCU\software\jetcar.....
 I have put it in quaretine and nothing seems affectted.
 Can anyone tell me what this is please,and should i remove it.
Thanks for your time........

[DeltaSlaya]

Flashget is an FTP connection client, that is if it's legitimate.

Does your protection app give you a registry entry? If so you should post the entire string it gives. What executable is it pointing to? If you can find this executable you should upload it to www.virustotal.com and see what they think of it . . .

[JXY]

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

it could be spyware.

download and install spybot S&D.

run a scan and see of ot picks up the flashget entry.

if it does, ask spybot to fix it for you. otherwise, i don't think it's a problem.

did you install flashget?

[paul420]

Thanks for your time on this, spybot,avg,adaware se,
none of them detect it only spyware terminater.
 ive just removed it and everything seems fine..
 cheers..

[CBMatt]

FlashGet is a download accelerator made by Jetcar.  I personally don't trust the program much (programs like this just seem iffy to me), but most people seem to think it's relatively safe.  In my eyes, the program you should worry about is Spyware Terminator.  It's a subpar program (once considered rogue anti-spyware) and anything it picks up has a chance of being no more than a false positive.  It's possible that one of the FlashGet files is considered spyware, but there's also a good chance the Spyware Terminator made a mistake.  If I were you, I'd stick with Spybot.

[paul420]

Thanks CBMatt,for the advice i found flashget
keeps appearing so i just keep removing it,
i have never had any problems with spyware terminator.
it dose seem to find things the others dont??even when
i had my gateway 2core mediacenter..
but cheers again CBMatt for your time..

[DeltaSlaya]

Oh woops, did I say FTP connection client ? ? I meant download accelerator . . . I was thinking of something else, SmartFTP or something, don't know why. Sorry for any confusion.

[paul420]

Thats alright DetltaSlaya..no harm done,
 the only thing that gets me is your penguin sign!!!
 with my Details on it anyone can read that yes??
 i must find a way to stop this as it just feeds my
 paranioa of on line ID theft and security...
 thanks..P...

[DeltaSlaya]

Well your IP and browser information is given to every website you visit, you can't stop this unless you use a proxy. Noone else can find out this information unless the website decides to broadcast it.

This is how it works with my signature. Your browser is requesting all the images on the page through the URLs, then it sends its request to the site that my signature is from (danasoft.com). This site uses the information sent to it to generate a new image that is then uploaded to your browser. Go to their site for more information.

www.danasoft.com

[paul420]

Thanks DeltaSlaya, thats reashuring
but now somthing has happend..
new post...cheers.P...

[CBMatt]

i have never had any problems with spyware terminator.
it dose seem to find things the others dont??even when
i had my gateway 2core mediacenter..

Spyware Terminator has a bad history of leading users astray with false information.  But if you wish to keep using it, that's entirely up to you.