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DSTUNE; Evaluate at Your Own Risk

DSTUNE; Evaluate at Your Own Risk

Dubbeldam's DSTUNE is supposed to be a shareware which allows a 30-day inspection before you buy. However, during installation, it writes a timestamp marker to a secret location on your hard drive and will NEVER return that space to your system, even if you uninstall it later because you don't like it or your PC can't run it.

Dubbeldam obviously do that so you don't keep reinstalling the shareware and use it for free forever. They claim that their practice of littering your harddrive is within Windows guidelines.

I say that is irresponsible and their shareware should be branded as a worm and disqualified as a legitimate shareware.

What they should have done is to have the decency of putting a warning in their installation about their irreversible timestamping mechanism and allow the user to back out if the user doesn't like losing diskspace permanently.


DsTune 2.2 By: admin (41 Posts) Tue, 06/10/2008 - 12:38

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