I have had no problems with Digsby. Trillian is the only thing that matches Digsby’s features. The only difference is Digsby is free.

Ignoring the unfortunate comment given by the first poster, I must say that computer security is generally ignored by the majority of Internet users, which explains why the Internet is so loaded with trash.

Good info about CS given in the following:

http://www.malwarehelp.org/
http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/winxpsecuritychecklist.htm

Point #1: You immediately lose all credibility in an argument whipping out an ancient insult opener like “Hey genius”. What is this? Sweet Valley High? Saved By The Bell? “Get Real” man

Point#2: Blogger and professionality are not synonymous. Mostly because “professionality” isn’t a word but nothing about blogging implies “professionalism” as any jackass with an internet connection can blog

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I know that they have already disclosed it in their blog and I have already mentioned in my post that it is upto the users to accept the offer or reject it.

But, and I REPEAT it after having already said in the post, many of the Internet users are still ignorant and naive enough to care for what is written in the EULAs, (license Agreements). Before clicking on a hyperlink, they do not care for knowing where this will lead them to.

Srinidhi, you may be digging far to deep to the archives of their blog to find a post about the disclosure, but it still remains a fact that most of the people, who might have downloaded Digsby, may not have cared to go that deep to read everything there.

Remember, we are addressing a large audience and not a few “informed” geeks.