Digsby doing "illegal" research on my computer

Hi there.
I've noticed that during idle time my computer gets very noisy. I've decided to take a look on this matter and discovered that digsby was the parent for a JAVA process on my computer that eat all my CPU power up to 99%.
Because of the heat, the cooler on the CPU gets VERY (I mean VERY) noisy.

This happens only during idle, not when I'm using my computer.

I've made a quick screenshot.




Full Image here:
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Tags: java, digsby, CPU, full load, process.

http://forum.digsby.com/viewtopic.php?id=2947

also... '"illegal"' ? what's with the quotes and word choice?

mike wrote:

http://forum.digsby.com/viewtopic.php?id=2947

also... '"illegal"' ? what's with the quotes and word choice?

Expect a visit from the police.

Also, that is a pretty ingenious source of revenue. Props to you guys.

But it would have been nice to have it announced somewhere so we know.

illegal because I didn't allowed it.
Maybe I would agree with that, but I would like to be asked for permission first.
Second, when your fan is blowing hot air and buzzing ridicously you get scared.

what is the process doing exactly?

@artfuldodga: It is versatile and can do any task that can be split up into small chunks and needs tons of computers to complete - right now it's doing mostly prime number research to test the functionality.

@Boofo + AndreiAvramescu: We are testing it right now and if we keep it, info will be added to the TOS or FAQ.

@AndreiAvramescu: It should be using 10% -  if it is using 99% that is a serious bug.  Please get this to happen and then submit a bug report using Help > Send Bug Report.

Same here.
I did three days research what was using the CPU when pc was idle.
Today I found it. Java.exe

Then I uninstalled it, reinstalled it, changed settings, cleaned out register, uinstalled it, reinstalled old version, and so on.



I've losen a lot of time.
A few hours ago I was enable to see what triggered Java.
Digsby.

90-100% cpu.

I don't want use Digsby not even 10% CPU when system is idle.

If there is not a new release soon without hidden activity (not even 10% cpu usage) I go back to trillian Pro which I bought a few years ago.

I thought Digsby are nice active people. Yes active doing things hidden on my PC.

of course you can disable it as mentioned here. also you might want to read this.

Ok. I've seen the thread.
I disabled "Help Digsby conduct research".

I find that this kind of stuff has to be announced.
I'm not sure what will happen more on my PC with digsby.
I was so happy with Digsby till now (installed it just a few weeks ago)
Can I trust Digsby or are you going on with this kind of things?

that's what the second link was for... ;-)

Ok. thank you.
I wished I saw quicker that the java file was trigged by digsby.
I lost so much time and hope I didn't damage something other on my PC.

I'm doing a system restore in order to return to a few days ago and start all over again.

Ramon: It should not have been using 100% - that is a bug that affected a small portion of users and was fixed.  The fix will go out in the next update.

Ok, thanks for your experience. Anyway that's possible.