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I have recently received a number of reports of the Bugs! screensaver being connected with spyware. The scenario seems to be roughly as follows: you visit a malicious website that installs unwanted software on you computer and starts the screensaver and/or shows the copyright information from the screensaver on your screen. Also, popups are being shown trying to sell some anti-spyware application. I am still trying to figure out exactly what is happening. I hope you understand that I have no control over this. The Bugs! screensaver itself is not spyware and is completely safe.

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Bugs! is a weird screensaver in which a bunch of bugs will eat your screen away. Settings include number of bugs, amount of hunger and settings for the image to appear when your screen is eaten away. You can also load other bugs.

A screenshot is available here.

The latest version fixes a few errors. The most noticeable one being that the screensaver was shown as a minimized window in Windows 2000, which has now been fixed.

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The screensaver needs visual basic 5 runtime files to execute. If the program complains about missing files, please download and install this file.

Bugs! - version 2.0.2 - 54 KB - screenshot - The latest version
Bugs! - version 1.1.0 - 43 KB - screenshot - Last working version of version 1 (with only the default bug, no loading of other bugs).

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These are additional bugs which you can download and load into the screensaver. As you can see the list of bugs is very short. If you have enough creativity and you've made some bugs of your own, I'll be happy to put them on this page. Information on how to create your own bugs can be found here.

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