Installing Uplister not advisable

Related link: http://www.uplister.com

Uplister has started sending out mail to users. You have to provide a working email address to install their software, there was no opt-in to get on their list, and there's no working opt-out once you're on their list. Never mind the spam, the uninstaller is broken, so once you install their software getting rid of it requires you to hand-delete their working directory, pick through the registry for any Uplister-related settings, and leave any DLLs they may have dropped into the Windows System directory.

The mail they send lists upload statistics for any playlists you may have created. I have never created any playlists with Uplister, so I am getting notices of 0 uploads of 0 things.

To stop the mailing you apparently have to go to their web site, log in and select some kind of preference. I say apparently because the log in doesn't recognize my password (as I remember it, which must be wrong) and there's no way to have a password reminder sent, so I can't log in at all. This means that I'm stuck with the spam.

True to form, the reply-to address on the mail is invalid, so you can't be manually removed from the list.

I then attempted to uninstall Uplister, but the password problem again stopped me. You can't run the uninstaller without logging in, and if you forget your password, there is no way to get a reminder. Big mistake: lose your password and you can neither stop the spamming nor uninstall the software.

Once you install Uplister, you may not be able to get rid of it.