Does /NOCANDY avoid any adware-related activities with OpenCandy?

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Published on 2010-04-20T07:53:48Z Indexed on 2014/06/04 21:29 UTC
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OpenCandy claims that using the /NOCANDY switch when using a OpenCandy-affiliated installer allows you to avoid opencandy.

Should I take their word for it?
If not, can anyone independent of OpenCandy and their affiliates verify that /NOCANDY works?

Background: About to install WinSCP onto a fresh Windows installation, and found out that new versions have OpenCandy associated with their installer. For the sake of balance, here's a link to WinSCP's FAQ on OpenCandy. The claim about /NOCANDY working appears on WinSCP's web site, but the same boilerplate appears on other OpenCandy web sites.

If the OpenCandy people are offended by the tag "spyare": sorry, but it's the main tag here, rather than "adware".

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