MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> > Did your anti-malware find anything? Looks like all it wanted to install was Google
> > Chrome. Can you remove Google Chrome from add/remove programs, and still have the
> > game work fine?
> >
> > I'm interested in adding this to my cab, but don't want any malware screwing things
> > up.
>
> I ran a Malware bytes quick scan (should've just did a deep scan since I slept a few
> hours through it anyway) and it didn't turn up anything. Neither did a Spybot scan. I
> have MSE & Comodo... Didn't run scans with them (not yet anyway).
>
>
> Oh, and it does tell you it's going to install that candy whatever -thing, along with
> the 'Mario X' game.
>
> [obviously] The thing that looked weird was when it was telling me that it was going
> to install Google Chrome... yet the choices were blank. So I didn't know if I was
> picking Yes or No.
>
> I picked the 2nd one and it didn't appear to install anything else.

Here's the site for OpenCandy: http://www.opencandy.com/

It's not malware, strictly speaking, but I'm suspicious of advertisers that glom onto other installers and install who-knows-what. Google around for "OpenCandy" and you'll see more than a few people share my misgivings.