MotioninJoy removed? Trying to use ps3 controller on pc

[NastyNas]

I cant find it anywhere...on their main site all the links to downloads come up as page errors...even from other sites im having no luck

[Satoru]

All the better. Did you really enjoy having Chinese Spyware on your comptuer?

[FBI]

It still works for me.. http://www.motioninjoy.com/download scroll down a bit (don't click the big green button that says START DOWNLOAD because it is a fake obviously..)

[Zefar]

Satoru a écrit :

All the better. Did you really enjoy having Chinese Spyware on your comptuer?

Do you actually have any proof that it's a spyware? :/ It's pretty much the universal tool for PS3 gamepad users.

[ONe_mOMENT]

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Satoru a écrit :

All the better. Did you really enjoy having Chinese Spyware on your comptuer?

Do you actually have any proof that it's a spyware? :/ It's pretty much the universal tool for PS3 gamepad users.

It's as much spyware then Chrome is.

There will always be people that call something "Spyware" when in reality its not. Origin and uplay are still being called spyware.

[Satoru]

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Satoru a écrit :

All the better. Did you really enjoy having Chinese Spyware on your comptuer?

Do you actually have any proof that it's a spyware? :/ It's pretty much the universal tool for PS3 gamepad users.

http://betterds3.ciebiera.net/why/

I don't consider "a web tool that runs with kernel privileges that can run arbitrary code from the Internet from a chinese website" to be anything other than spyware.

Yes if you 'dont use the terrible web tool' then you can avoid this. But really who is doing that? I'd wager at least 50% of people (and that's CONSERVATIVE) are running that native motioninjoy web tool. Which means they'er all vulnerable to whatever whimsical thign the developer, or any potential website hijacker wants to do. IT's basically a gamer bot-net waiting to be activated.

Since 'most' people won't run the MotionInJoy properly by ripping out the spyware component, I highly discourage people to use it. Its more or less like telling people blowfish is totally safe for sashimi, as long as you deal with the 'minor' problem of getting rid of that poison sack thing.

[Satoru]

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Zefar a écrit :

Do you actually have any proof that it's a spyware? :/ It's pretty much the universal tool for PS3 gamepad users.

It's as much spyware then Chrome is.

There will always be people that call something "Spyware" when in reality its not. Origin and uplay are still being called spyware.

Chrome can't download and execute arbitrary code from the internet with kernel priviledges without your permission like MotionInJoy can.

uPlay and Origin were overblown concerns.

There are REAL LEGITIMATE problems with MotionInJoy that people seem to not know about, or don't care as long as they can get their PS3 controllers working. I don't consider installing a Chinese Trojan on my computer to be an acceptable compromise just to get a controller working.

[Shaun]

Easy fix: Add DS3_Tool.exe to firewall rule to block inbound data not outbound (blocking Outbound will prevent web portion of motion in joy from working) problem solved.

Basically with Inbound blocked it won't be able to receive any sort of data but can still reach out to the internet.

Motion in Joy works great.

[Jawaka]

Why would a gamepad driver need to talk to the Internet at all?