Zylom Games Player: not spyware
July 19th, 2005*sigh*
Due to Microsoft basically removing Java from their browser, nowadays most browsergames are ActiveX (don’t get me started about Flash). This however requires you to install an ActiveX object, to allow downloading the games and play them in your browser. We spent quite some time creating a good loader object which works onder IE and Firefox (Wintel). This loader object is required to play (our) ActiveX games.
However, each and every day I get google alerts regarding postings on forums with hijackthis logfiles, and other people suggesting to those people to remove the Zylom Games Player. Then afterwards they contact our support that “suddenly the games stopped working”, when ofcourse they never changed a bit (except for removing our player)…
So if you see a line like
O16 - DPF: {BFF1950D-B1B4-4AE8-B842-B2CCF06D9A1B} (Zylom Games Player) http://../zylomgamesplayer.cab
in you hijackthis log, don’t worry, it’s not spyware. It’s our game-extension and is required to play the games.
See the zylom help as well.