Badware Alert: Aldi Photo Manager

StopBadware.org released a badware alert about Aldi Photo Manager today:

We find that the ALDI Photo Manager application is badware because it fails to disclose that it bundles the ‘ALDI Photo Service’ application, the ‘ALDI Print Service’ application, and Firebird SQL Server software. Firebird SQL Server is not identified as being related to the ALDI applications, and it runs automatically at system startup. None of these bundled applications are uninstalled when ALDI Photo Manager is uninstalled..

We attempted to contact Aldi Photo Service through the contact options provided on their website, but we received only an automated response acknowledging our communications.

We currently recommend that users do not install ALDI Photo Manager, unless users are comfortable with the behaviors we have identified or until the application is updated to be consistent with the recommendations made in this alert.