While it's unclear why Cnet is a bit two faced about pest, parasites and in short adware/spyware, it's clear that some of us will not allow such on our machines.
Light reading at http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/
I can't solve this issue, but must note that if you pin down a "person" from Cnet, they won't suggest any pest/parasite/adware. But being driven by marketing and more, Cnet (not the people, but the orginization) can't help but offer AD-SPONSORED software.
Your choice on the matter at the end of the day.
Bob
This program is terrible! Not only did it not work very well but it will not uninstall. It seems to be invoked using rundll32.exe which when run with the proper parameters (tried both from gui and from cli -- RunDll32 C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\engine\6\INTEL3~1\Ctor.dll,LaunchiSetup -ether"C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{0B4686AE-A1A7-4477-B8EA-65033218474E}" -l0x9 /ku /kp /kc) the thing just spins taking up cpu resources.
I also learned that this software installed detectable spyware/adware from kontiki. What gives?! What else did you install on my machine without my knowing it?
ok, so, I want this software removed -- ALL OF IT! I hope that you folks at cnet will be responsible enough to be able to give me the proper technique for removing your software completely from my machine.
thanks.

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