Webshots Won't Start

[Don R]

I have Webshots in my startup directory but it doesn't start when the system boots. Clicking on the same shortcut after the system is booted will start the program. I've tried uninstalling the program and reinstalling to no avail. Also when through the registry and deleted all mention of webshots, then reinstalled. Still no help. I have another computer on the same network, running the same software and Webshots starts up fine on it. I'm out of ideas.
Thanks, Don R

 

[news.rr.com]

try msconfig...startup


I have Webshots in my startup directory but it doesn't start when the system
boots. Clicking on the same shortcut after the system is booted will start
the program. I've tried uninstalling the program and reinstalling to no
avail. Also when through the registry and deleted all mention of webshots,
then reinstalled. Still no help. I have another computer on the same
network, running the same software and Webshots starts up fine on it. I'm
out of ideas.
Thanks, Don R

 

[Don R]

I should have mentioned msconfig startup as one of the items I had checked. Webshots is listed and the box is checked. Still the program does not start and is not listed in Task Manager under processes. After manually starting the program it is listed as one of the processes running. Any other ideas out there??
Thanks, Don R

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have Webshots in my startup directory but it doesn't start when the system boots. Clicking on the same shortcut after the system is booted will start the program. I've tried uninstalling the program and reinstalling to no avail. Also when through the registry and deleted all mention of webshots, then reinstalled. Still no help. I have another computer on the same network, running the same software and Webshots starts up fine on it. I'm out of ideas.
Thanks, Don R

Well, if you really, really want to run spyware/adware on your network
to waste bandwidth, why don't you contact the manufacturers of the
malware (Webshots) to get assistance. This isn't a Windows issue.

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[Don R]

Bruce,
Didn't mean to offend anyone or waste your time with a non Windows question. Some times it's difficult to tell where the real problem starts. I looked into asking for help at Webshots and could find no help unless I sent money. I won't burden you or the anyone else in this newsgroup with my problem. BTW thanks for the links on how to post a newsgroup question.
Have a nice day,
Don

 

[Steve N.]

Bruce, Didn't mean to offend anyone or waste your time with a non
Windows question. Some times it's difficult to tell where the real
problem starts. I looked into asking for help at Webshots and could
find no help unless I sent money. I won't burden you or the anyone
else in this newsgroup with my problem. BTW thanks for the links on
how to post a newsgroup question. Have a nice day, Don

Bruce's point is that Webshots is spyware and the network activity of
Webshots wastes YOUR bandwidth. Do you really want that for the sake of
a few pretty pictures?

Steve

 

[news.rr.com]

OK, Mr. Internet Park Ranger.

Bruce, Didn't mean to offend anyone or waste your time with a non
Windows question. Some times it's difficult to tell where the real
problem starts. I looked into asking for help at Webshots and could
find no help unless I sent money. I won't burden you or the anyone
else in this newsgroup with my problem. BTW thanks for the links on
how to post a newsgroup question. Have a nice day, Don

Bruce's point is that Webshots is spyware and the network activity of
Webshots wastes YOUR bandwidth. Do you really want that for the sake of
a few pretty pictures?

Steve

 

[Don R]

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply. The intent of your post is most appreciated. I've received some very good advice from members of this forum and certainly don't want to offend. Bruce has a point that my original post was not on topic.
If you can confirm that Webshots is spyware I'll get rid of it immediately. Our IT staff at the office would be very interested too. It's my understanding that CNet has cleaned up the program and it is no longer considered Sypware.
One final note - It may be of interest to the group that the program causing Webshots not to load was Outlook 2000. Don't know why, but removing Outlook from automatic startup allows Webshots to load normally.
Regards,
Don

 

[George Hester]

Well there you go it was an Outlook issue not a Windows issue but you are right sometimes we don't know what
is responsible for something not working in Windows therefor it is not so out of line thinking it may be a Windows
problem.

As for the spyware isseue. I think the application itself is probably inert other than the bandwidth issue. But what comes with it? Likely gator; likely Bonzai;... that stuff you need to check. And if it don't come with it you're probably fine. But remember these places survive on advertising dollars and they agree to put their advertising in their applications. Those advertisers install dlls and such in your system usually without your knowledge and serve you up with all kinds of Casinos; Long Lost Highscrool friends and the like.

--
George Hester
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply. The intent of your post is most appreciated. I've received some very good advice from members of this forum and certainly don't want to offend. Bruce has a point that my original post was not on topic.
If you can confirm that Webshots is spyware I'll get rid of it immediately. Our IT staff at the office would be very interested too. It's my understanding that CNet has cleaned up the program and it is no longer considered Sypware.
One final note - It may be of interest to the group that the program causing Webshots not to load was Outlook 2000. Don't know why, but removing Outlook from automatic startup allows Webshots to load normally.
Regards,
Don

 

[Don R]

Hi George,

I run Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition version 8, Ad-Aware SE Personal, and Zone Alarm and my system is connected to the internet through a Linksys Broadband router.

I checked into whether Webshots was spyware and came away with the impression that it was not. At one time it did contain a file called new.net, that was suspected of being spyware but current versions no longer have this program included. Here's part of a readme file found in my programs directory in a subdirectory named newdotnet.

begin quote
The New.net Client Application was also previously, but no longer, distributed with the follow software titles:
Go!Zilla
Babylon
Cydoor
GDivx
WebShots
end quote.

Well there you go it was an Outlook issue not a Windows issue but you are right sometimes we don't know what
is responsible for something not working in Windows therefor it is not so out of line thinking it may be a Windows
problem.

As for the spyware isseue. I think the application itself is probably inert other than the bandwidth issue. But what comes with it? Likely gator; likely Bonzai;... that stuff you need to check. And if it don't come with it you're probably fine. But remember these places survive on advertising dollars and they agree to put their advertising in their applications. Those advertisers install dlls and such in your system usually without your knowledge and serve you up with all kinds of Casinos; Long Lost Highscrool friends and the like.

--
George Hester
_________________________________
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply. The intent of your post is most appreciated. I've received some very good advice from members of this forum and certainly don't want to offend. Bruce has a point that my original post was not on topic.
If you can confirm that Webshots is spyware I'll get rid of it immediately. Our IT staff at the office would be very interested too. It's my understanding that CNet has cleaned up the program and it is no longer considered Sypware.
One final note - It may be of interest to the group that the program causing Webshots not to load was Outlook 2000. Don't know why, but removing Outlook from automatic startup allows Webshots to load normally.
Regards,
Don

 

[George Hester]

Yeah thanks you told me what I couldn't remember at the time. Look for cydoor.dll or cy*.dll on your system. If you have it you have spyware. If you don't that really doesn't mean anything other than you don't have cydoor. New.net yes very very bad. Glad they got rid of that.

--
George Hester
_________________________________
Hi George,

I run Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition version 8, Ad-Aware SE Personal, and Zone Alarm and my system is connected to the internet through a Linksys Broadband router.

I checked into whether Webshots was spyware and came away with the impression that it was not. At one time it did contain a file called new.net, that was suspected of being spyware but current versions no longer have this program included. Here's part of a readme file found in my programs directory in a subdirectory named newdotnet.

begin quote
The New.net Client Application was also previously, but no longer, distributed with the follow software titles:
Go!Zilla
Babylon
Cydoor
GDivx
WebShots
end quote.

Well there you go it was an Outlook issue not a Windows issue but you are right sometimes we don't know what
is responsible for something not working in Windows therefor it is not so out of line thinking it may be a Windows
problem.

As for the spyware isseue. I think the application itself is probably inert other than the bandwidth issue. But what comes with it? Likely gator; likely Bonzai;... that stuff you need to check. And if it don't come with it you're probably fine. But remember these places survive on advertising dollars and they agree to put their advertising in their applications. Those advertisers install dlls and such in your system usually without your knowledge and serve you up with all kinds of Casinos; Long Lost Highscrool friends and the like.

--
George Hester
_________________________________
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply. The intent of your post is most appreciated. I've received some very good advice from members of this forum and certainly don't want to offend. Bruce has a point that my original post was not on topic.
If you can confirm that Webshots is spyware I'll get rid of it immediately. Our IT staff at the office would be very interested too. It's my understanding that CNet has cleaned up the program and it is no longer considered Sypware.
One final note - It may be of interest to the group that the program causing Webshots not to load was Outlook 2000. Don't know why, but removing Outlook from automatic startup allows Webshots to load normally.
Regards,
Don

 

[Steve N.]

Hi Steve, Thanks for the reply. The intent of your post is most
appreciated. I've received some very good advice from members of
this forum and certainly don't want to offend. Bruce has a point
that my original post was not on topic. If you can confirm that
Webshots is spyware I'll get rid of it immediately. Our IT staff at
the office would be very interested too. It's my understanding that
CNet has cleaned up the program and it is no longer considered
Sypware. One final note - It may be of interest to the group that the
program causing Webshots not to load was Outlook 2000. Don't know
why, but removing Outlook from automatic startup allows Webshots to
load normally. Regards, Don

I would not be overly concerned about unintentionally offending anyone.
Most of the people worth communicating with here aren't going to be
overly concerend about it either.

Perhaps the term "spyware" is not quite accurate, however the effect on
network traffic is much the same. The program calls home unless
configured not to do so and since that is how you get new pretty
pictures what's the point in disabling it?

On our network (very large school district) we do not allow webshots for
this very reason and we remove it when found. We have enough traffic
with our standard compliment of applications as it is. If your IT staff
sees no issue with it then that is their call.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

OK, Mr. Internet Park Ranger.

Haha! Mr. Internet Park Ranger! Haha! That's pretty good, but where I
work I am known as a "Network Nazi". Thanks for the compliment.



Steve