Buddy Phone 2 is a good program overall. It lets you talk to anyone who has it and whose IP or email address you know. It also works through ICQ as a plugin. While it is a great program it does have a BAD side effect! The problem is that is uses "Spyware" by Aureate/Radiate. This could be the cause of one of the other reviewer's computer crashing when using it. I do think that paying the fee that removes the advertising will remove this Spyware. It has been shown that even deleting this or any Aureate-encoded product will not remove this PARASITE. What it does is take up YOUR bandwidth to send info to Aureate about your net surfing habits! There is, however, a solution!

Go to http://grc.com/optout.htm
There you can download a product called OptOut which will remove all known spyware from your system. When I first ran it, I was STUNNED! It found 23 instances of the spyware and OVER 50 total occurances in my registry, etc...

The OptOut website lists SEVERAL other programs which carry this type of Spyware. GetRight, CuteFTP and others are all knowingly infected and taking your resources away! I will be immediately posting this warning to those programs that I know about to Epinions.com

As to Buddy Phone in general, it is a good program, what I would suggest is get it and then run OptOut ASAP!




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