Badware Alert: Spyware Striker Pro
Posted by Brandon Palmen
StopBadware.org released a badware alert about Spyware Striker Pro today:
We find that Spyware Striker Pro is badware because it does not disclose the fact that it installs additional “Performance Center” software which is registered to run automatically at startup, and fails to remove this software when Spyware Striker Pro is uninstalled.
The company responsible for Spyware Striker Pro, Ascentive, responded to our communications about the application by assuring us that they intend to release a future version of Spyware Striker Pro that will disclose the bundled installation of Performance Center in the software’s End User License Agreement and will remove the software when Spyware Striker Pro is uninstalled. Although these changes will be welcome, the application will not fully comply with our recommendations unless it also discloses the software bundling in a clear and conspicuous manner outside of the EULA.
Until such an update is released, we recommend that users do not install Spyware Striker Pro unless users are comfortable with the behaviors that we identify in our alert.