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Naming - Yura87 (talk) 08:37, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Pokki is apparently named after pokkї, given the company being named SweetLabs and also releasing OpenCandy

This article aims to lend credibility to the damn spyware pokki which installs on my PC without my will

This is a plain spyware but they try to create a credibility via this article. Because most people, like myself search for "what is pokki" in the search engines to find out where the the hell this damn software keeps comming. It is a shame!

Spyware

Pokki Menu turns out to be spyware according to its own license agreement. This page serves only as promotional material unless something is added to warn potential users about exactly what it is that they are installing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.224.110.47 (talk) 18:09, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Spyware origins?

I found it impossible to uninstall Pokki from several computers, it auto-installed on the computers without ANY user consent, was nearly impossible to kill from the running tasks, constantly replaced itself in the running tasks when you deleted items that caused it to run after startup. Over time the computers eventually stopped working normally as their web access was completely replaced by some kind of a virus proxy, so that no pages loaded normally, but garbled and with content missing. How did it get there? I have a hint; it might have been an infected router or maybe a youtube video save plugin. It is clear that Pokki has some kind of espionage in mind. As for the "it can be removed by the autoinstaller" argument, no it can't. On second thought... it could have been installed via facebook possibly. In any way, it is a piece of software that is necessary for easily written malware to run, something like vbrun300.dll, agreed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.64.9.185 (talk) 11:39, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

its spyware/virus

https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=pokki%20spyware — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.72.250.35 (talk) 23:46, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above search only returns a list of some equally dubious automated antivirus pages with questionable contents. The currently available Pokki start menu extension does not seem to do any of the things it is blamed on these pages. It can easily be removed via it's own installer or the windows settings like any other page. It does seem to collect usage stats like some other softare does. In short: It may still be spyware, but as og now there is no actual analysis on what if spys other than some entries in it's terms&conditions. So, objective analysis is welcome but dont rely on any rumors out there! BTW: None of my known virus scannes were triggered by Pokki. ToBe998 (talk) 12:08, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actually my own experience (not just web rumours) seems to suggest that pokki indeed may infect your PC with malware, whether that is intended or due to manipulation/hacking by third parties of their distribution chain/server I don't know. What I'm relatively certain is however, that an pokki update on my fresh out of the box installation installs a browser redirect to the malware site hompage-web.com.--Kmhkmh (talk) 15:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It would be useful if there were a section on the article page that briefly mentions the spyware problem. Most Wikipedia users don't think to click on the talk section to check these discussions---Ed S. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CD9B:E9A0:447C:872E:7E15:3BC0 (talk) 03:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree but that requires a reliable published source, that is we need a published article in journal or newspaper mentioning that some pokki (pre)installation might be malware infected. Personal observation of individual users (like in forum or website postings) or WP editors themselves are not simply not sufficient by Wikipedia sourcing standards. I've seen the issue come up in some software reviews on software download sites, but again those were only individual user reviews.--Kmhkmh (talk) 05:43, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: This Register article gets close to it and might be usable:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/25/lenovo_pokki/

--Kmhkmh (talk) 06:01, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This reminds me of Wajam, which coincidentally was another Montreal startup. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 15:53, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]