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ViewPoint and viewmgr.exe
Is anybody familiar with an application called ViewPoint? I've been running my computer about a year and have never been aware of this program being there before. Suddenly, viewmgr.exe has begun insistently pinging my firewall, trying to connect, and ViewPoint has shown up on my Control Panel. :smileymad: Neither Adaware or Spybot seem to object to it, but I can't figure out where it came from, what it does, or why it suddenly woke up. Any thoughts on deleting it? - Good idea/bad idea?
Thanks,
Whit
- "Viewpoint Media Player is bundled with AOL, AOL Instant Messenger, Netscape 7, and... Adobe Atmosphere." Some people consider Viewpoint as being spyware, because these other programs (e.g., AOL) sometimes don't explicitly mention in their license agreement that Viewpoint is part of the 'bundling'. " Adobe Atmosphere uses the Viewpoint Media Player to view a virtual world and AOL uses Viewpoint for advertising and enhanced content on their service and in the client software itself. The SuperBuddies feature (for instant messaging), Instant Greetings, Kids Online, the new windowing system, and many other areas on AOL deliver high-impact graphics using Viewpoint. The Viewpoint Media Player is required for AOL's operation and if it is removed AOL will reinstall Viewpoint Media Player.
in other words, if you have AOL/AIM/Netscape7/AdobeAtmosphere installed and running, you should probably leave Viewpoint alone. if you're not running any of these, you can consider deleting the Viewpoint player.
- Thanks to both for the feedback. I don't run AOL, IM, or NS7. Not familiar with Adobe Atmosphere, but noticed on Adobe's website they no longer offer this product. Interesting thing was how ViewPoint suddenly just popped up out of the blue, pinging the %#@**^ out of my firewall. No new installations, so don't have a clue how it got there. That's scary - thought I was protected and a "smart" user. Anyway, thanks for all the comments. I think ViewPoint is history.
Jimmy Hoffa
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Posted May 4th, 2005 20:00
Hello whitpet. You don't need "viewpoint" on your system. You can uninstall Viewpoint Media Player. Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, select it and select remove. The uninstall is less than complete, and you'll probably still need to go looking for the files - search for viewmgr.exe and delete it. If you can't, you may need to useTask Manager and kill it first.
>jimmy