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Very happy to announce that MSE 2011 discovered Adware which was piggy-backed in the free download of Sothink Video Converter. Though the results say the risk is "low", it means that a trusted company from which I have purhased my video software for five years got a scalding support ticket from me! That lead to a discourse between myself and the marketing department. A small bribe (free license) if I would not disclose my findings on the Internet. I said sorry, "but I am all about Internet ethics. I cited my own online service and how people refer other computer users to my remote help site because of "my privacy and work ethics".
Bottom line. OpenCandy.com has been around a few years and sothink.com stuffs it into their free video converter application. Grrr! They denied it at first but not after I sent them a screenshot. Oops! It may not be harmful but it's "grayware" and I did not have an option to opt-out during the installation. Bad Dog!!
Good news, MSE 2011 does a better job than AVG, AVAST and Avira in this area. I reinstalled the program, ran all of them and not one detected Opencandy, just MSE 2011.