floele Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 The OpenCandy team has written a pretty extensive article on what happened. I'd recommend you to read it, I couldn't add much information to it. Further reading: What Information Does OpenCandy Collect? tl;dr: Recent versions of OpenCandy are no longer detected as adware, their software recommendation component is now even less intrusive. There has not been a threat to your privacy or security. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
adrianbourke Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 My name is Adrian, and I'm one of the founders at OpenCandy. I've posted an response to a statement related to the information OpenCandy collects on another thread on this forum. You can see the post here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10407&p=35092#p35092 Feel free to post any questions you have and I'm more than willing to answer them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
floele Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Thanks for joining It looks like most users have understood the situation by now though, considering that there are no new complaints in the most recent announcement. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kenmurphy Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 Hi Just to let you know, installed the latest version of CDBurnerXP a few minutes ago (ver 4.3.8.2523) and the latest Eset Nod 32 anti virus is still marking the OpenCandy component as malware. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Bypass Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Why not just eliminate the hidden adware. Make a button to click on if people want to look at it. Problem would be solved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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