Grokster and spyware
 

Just say no to filefreedom,offer companion,gator,and the desktop shortcuts. The startpage comes with something called Guardster which I don't use. It seems insidious. You can eliminate the ad bar by substituting a dummy file called cd_clint.dll for the original in your system.

http://www.cexx.org/dummies.htm

http://www.guardster.com

So that .dll file replacement entirely disables Cydoor on grokster?

well, I ran AdAware....disabled the spyware from the new version of Grokster, and of course diabled Grokster in the process...which led me to this thread. But I followed Napho's link....d/l'd cd_clint.zip but it says the info file is corrupt....any advice on how to install the dummy file (which I assume is Project1.cpp) to make Grokster work again without the spyware?

The dummy file is the cd_clint.dll file!

On Win 9x\ME it goes in the Windows\System folder

on 2000\XP it goes in the Windows\System32 folder

And rename the original cd_clint.dll to cd_clint.old or cd_clint.org or something because it doesn't like to uninstall later using the dummy...

if you d/l that link from napho and unzip it to a new folder, remember to ignore it when ad-aware discovers it, which it will. you're going to need it later.

say no to all the extra installs grokster presents at set-up, including taking over your browser. after install clean grokster with ad-aware. twice. allow ad-aware to remove everything except the cd-clint.dll files. when done go to windows/system and find the cd_clint.dll there. it should be 151k. rename and remove it to another folder and replace it with the one you d/l'd. done.

restart grokster. i'll clean this up later* but that's about it.

- js.

edit:*done.

well, after 30 minutes of fruitlessssly searching for both the old cd_clint.dll file and the new cd_clint.dll file, it finally dawned on me that they were both hidden files....so once I removed the hidden attributes and replaced the spyware file with the dummy file, voila! i'm back on Grokster and d/l away.....

thanks, Jack and Napho - i don't care what the RIAA says about you - you guys are first class in my book!

:AP:

protecting registry
 

with

• C:\WINNT\system32\regedt32.exe

you can set access rights for every registry key - thus setting it i.e. "read only" for all users including admin (if you admin). this works for WINNT.

are there experiences with other OS?
anybody tried it already?
i couldnt prove if malicious clients could override this setings.

indy