Pop up ads on my pc...

[SilverHood]

had a rumage around, and lo and behold:

Dear SAVE!/SAVENOW User -
SAVE!/SAVENOW is a program that brings you relevant offers and tells you about great deals and similar sites when you surf the web. It is our strict policy to distribute SAVE!/SAVENOW only to users who have accepted the SAVE!/SAVENOW license agreement.

SAVE!/SAVENOW is installed on your computer as a module that comes with WeatherCast or ClockSync or other software that you downloaded from the Internet. At that time, you accepted a SAVE!/SAVENOW license agreement as part of the download process you completed. - If you believe you have received SAVE!/SAVENOW without accepting the license agreement, please let us know at legal@whenu.com.

There are a vast number of great offers and services available on the Internet. In addition, we negotiate a number of exclusive offers to maximize value for our users. SAVE!/SAVENOW's goal is to show users information about these offers and services - right at the moment when they need it. For example, if you go to a job search site, we might show you an offer for Hotjobs - which is right now offering great value to users that post resumes at their site. If you go to Staples, you might see an offer for a $30 off coupon that will save you money when you shop there. We show these offers infrequently so as not to be intrusive.

SAVE!/SAVENOW strictly protects user privacy in the following manner:

* Personally identifiable information is NOT required in order to use the software
* WhenU.com does NOT transmit URLS visited by the user to WhenU.com or any third-party server
* WhenU.com does NOT assemble personally-identifiable browsing profiles of users
* WhenU.com does NOT assemble machine-identifiable browsing profiles of users
* WhenU.com does NOT track which ads and offers are seen or clicked on by individual machines

SAVE!/SAVENOW is NOT spyware - there is no persistent communication between your desktop computer and our servers. Users have noted that the program contacts our servers every once in a while - it does so in order to retrieve content from us and store that content on your computer, to make it available to you at the right moment. There is one daily communication sent just to let us know that the software is functioning - nothing more (i.e. no collection of browsing history, etc). The desktop application checks for the presence of new browser windows every 3 seconds - which results in sustained (but very low) CPU usage.

Typically, data sent to the desktop is done in very small chunks of less than 4K - hardly noticeable. Upon installation, there will be some bandwidth usage as the initial content database is loaded - this is a one-time event. Very infrequently, there might be a sustained burst of data sent to the desktop - this would only be done if we: updated the desktop software itself (which we do from time to time to improve performance) or if we updated the entire content database. Again, these are one-time events - the application does NOT use bandwidth on a sustained basis. The software takes up only slightly more RAM than your IE browser control uses in any case (it shares RAM with it) and is designed to be non-intrusive and non-invasive.

If you want to uninstall SAVE! from your desktop, you must uninstall all of the SAVE! supported software you have downloaded. To see which SAVE! supported software you have downloaded, click on the "?" in the top right hand corner of one of the SAVE! coupons, offers or ads that you see while surfing the Internet. If you want to uninstall SaveNow, you can do so through the Add/Remove Programs function in your computer's Control Panel. Of course we encourage you to leave it on so that you can benefit from the occasional offers that it shows you. If you need more information, or experience any technical problems, please contact us at techsupport@whenu.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

so, they want my email address so they can bulk mail it to me?

and whats more laughable, I would never consend to anything like this shit

ah well... deleted it, and recreated the folder it was in with a nice "read only" setting...

the fuckers

 

[Tom]

Use a 3rd party program to remove it, uninstalling it doesn't delete the program or its folder!!

 

[old.milou]

Try Adaware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

or

SpyBot: http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download

 

[SilverHood]

did run ad aware, but that wouldn't fix it, because it was already in use.

 

[nath]

end process tbh.