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Viepoint has a good explaination of the View Manager and Viewpoint Flash Player on their web site here:
http://www.viewpoint.com/pub/privacy_commitment.html

There are a lot of web sites trying to sell you anti-spyware software that are trying to claim that View Manager is spyware - however this does not appear to be the case.

i found this site by googling for Viewpoint+forum.

The reason for my search was, while at space.com, a popup appeared, so i could download "the Viewpoint Media Player".

This was after i added space.com to my 'Trusted' list.

i didn't click 'install', so hopefully i avoided another 'crapware' 'auto-install'

thanks for the warning & thanks for taking the time to put up & maintain this site, i know it takes a lot of effort, but i, & many others, appreciate it

jstick
jsbg10@yah00.com

Hi, my name is Mary. We have Norton Anti-virus on our computer and something called ViewMgr.exe keeps trying to get on. Should I allow it in? What is it wanting on for? Please help. I'm now having problems when I'm trying to use Incredimail. The Internet Explorer doens't want to work right. Is it because I didn't let this in and pushed "block" instead?
Please help.
Mary Beatty

In addition to Viewpoint Media Player, my computer has something called Viewpoint Toolbar. Is the toolbar part of the Viewpoint Media Player, and should I delete it also?

I tried to get rid of viewmgr.exe many times using the control panel add/remove along with the task manager, and it kept failing to get rid of it. Something new would pop up everytime. Thankfully, with the help of my Spybot Search & Destory, I was able to get rid of viewmgr.exe by deleting the Viewpoint Media installer in Spybot's "Uninstall info" in the advanced mode.

Viewpoint Media Player doesn't do its drive-by installation just from AIM (which I don't use). As Mike pointed out on October 24, Adobe Acrobat Reader somehow includes Viewpoint Media Player as part of a plug-in update. Spyware? Well, I would categorize any unauthorized installation of an application, tool, plug-in, or BHO as malware at the least. If I didn't knowingly authorize the installation, it's malware.

As for removal, I had previously encountered Viewpoint Media Player, when running a scan using X-Cleaner, which detected and removed it. However, I recently encountered this malware again over the weekend, while authorizing a download and update of Acrobat Reader. This time, however, X-Cleaner detected ViewpointMedia Player, but could not delete it. In fact, trying to delete it caused X-Cleaner to hang.

I have since submitted a trouble ticket with XBlock.com, but they have yet to respond. In the meantime, I deleted all files and directories under Program Files (Viewpoint Media Player did not show up in Add/Remove Programs. A subsequent scan by X-Cleaner did not find any traces of Viewpoint Media Player, but I will follow the instructions in this post to ensure I have thoroughly removed all residual files and registry entries.

How old is this post?

My wife can trace the presence of her own uniquely identifiable copy of viewpoint.exe back to an aborted attempt at installing some type of program offered by the iTunes website.

The program installer balked, telling her that it could not install on winME, but viewpoint was installed. AT NO TIME WAS SHE EVER MADE AWARE OF THE INTENT TO INSTALL VIEWPOINT ON HER COMPUTER.

Some may wish to claim that viewpoint isn't spyware, but viewpoint uses spyware tactics to get their data mining tool onto consumers' computers. A defense of viewpoint amounts to mere equivocation, and meaningless distinctions.

It should be considered the sam as, and removed exactly like, any other piece of spyware.

Hey, ViewPoint may not be spyware but while AIM is set to "Don't start at startup" ViewMgr does start up. That's the main issue I have with it. I think Xupiter is easier to deal with.

I don't use AIM or AOL and have SpyBlaster and Lavasoft Ad-aware on my machine. I'm definitely not a newbie and am very cautious, yet I found Viewpoint on my machine a couple of nights ago. The only thing I've downloaded in the last few days are MS patches and an Adobe update.

So far, I've seemed to have rid myself of all the files associated with ViewPoint, but I'm still looking. I just wanted to back up Chuck's assertion (30 Nov. 2004).

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