Exeem was the the highly touted P2P application brought to us from the same group that had brought us the excellent Bittorrent tracker site SuprNova. It was known upon release that the app would include adware in order to appease the anonymous corporate donor that helped support the project. However, what was not known is that this app would also include Spyware. The spyware application in question is “CyDoor”.
According to WikiPedia, Cydoor is a spyware program that causes popup and pop-under ads to be displayed while you are browsing the Internet. It also re-routes your web requests through third-party servers for the purpose of capturing your web surfing habits.
To counter this, the Exeem Lite project is underway. Like the original KazAa Lite and so forth, this modified Exeem client will not have the spyware/adware. That said, why would anyone want to use Exeem to begin with? I’ll remind you that though Exeem can make use of Torrents, those are not its native protocol. It uses another protocol, under a system very similar to the eDonkey2000 network. Furthermore, its based on an unestablished network with little in the way of selection… so what motivation is there to get on the bandwagon?