Seriously, I have *never* felt so violated. There was no disclosure. I told the author to go burn, and you folks with him. I had to use sysinternals utilities to track down these quickly disappearing pop-up security windows, and frequent system crashes. It was a complete, hidden and well covered up mystery who was feeding date rape drugs to my PC. Even with nothing running at all and no instances of Explorer open these were going down. So clever to bury it in my system tray.

You’ll just love his reponse – basically he was sick of freeloaders who never contributed (even accused me of being one, and being someone who has contributed years of development as freeware I was even more deeply offended) and he felt his EULA entitled him to Monetize his product as he saw fit, that we (freeloaders) were sapping his time from his family, and he needed money to save for a trip to South Africa to visit his family. I’d like to publish my response, but you folks probably filter explitives and I’m just not that into censorship.

Could you tell us which of Skynergy’s applications you were using? All of our affiliates are required to visually notify their users of Plura’s integration with their software or website (you can see details here: http://bit.ly/3gAXfR).

We regularly conduct an auditing process to check if affiliates are violating our policies. If you can tell us which application you were using, we’ll be able to more effectively investigate.

Thanks,
Plura Support

The tools I had to use to find out who had hijacked my PC are WAY beyond what the average person who’s system has been compromised would begin to understand. So yes, Plura has officially joined the dark side, too.