Cute Autoposter

Pros

Nothing that I could find, but then I stopped the installation.

Cons

Spammy - and what it does is probably a violation of Craigslist's terms of service

Summary

When I read what this would do it sounded like the kind of software spammers - and scammers - use. I like to report those people so I thought it would be helpful to see how the software works, so I downloaded and installed it.

During the installation it started checking for an update. I thought that would take a while so I walked away from the computer. When I got back a couple of minutes later there was a great big Internet Explorer window open with a (supposed) Wal-Mart survey in it. Since I'm using Firefox I thought this was a bit unusual - even the occasion popunder I see would open in Firefox.

It took several clicks to close that big window - several windows, actually, since IE was giving me its standard "intro" screens. The process of closing everything got quite confusing but at some point I got a message from Windows asking if I wanted to send a report on the software it had to close - this Cute Autoposter. So I'm guessing the Autoposter was the source of the "Wal-Mart" window. I have now uninstalled it and as soon as I finish this review will be going offline and running my virus checker.

There is one thing I want to mention. What the description says this software will do - post automatically every few hours, read Captchas, automatically set up other CL and even Gmail accounts, change the IP address - is almost certainly a violation of Craigslist's terms of service for overposting (one ad every 48 hours). It probably violates Gmail's TOS as well. Even if you really don't care about that I'll add one other thing - it's two years old. CL has made some changes to its own software in that time and this thing may not still work.

And that's even assuming you want to deal with the spam you get when you're installing it.

Pros

Very easy to use, and they offer a free trail that lets you see how effective it is, I got the trial and was very impressed with the ease of use and the fast customer service, absolutely amazing software, the best software i ever downloaded here

Cons

Nothing ! perfect.