WARNING - Whitesmoke forum The Whitesmoke forum, in keeping with their policy of scams and spam, is also a scam. --Most of the postings are iinvented by the Whitesmoke team. There is no Privacy Policy. Your email address is publicly displayed on

The sign--up system on the Whitesmoke website is a deliberate form of what is called 'e-mail harvesting' to build up a huge database of e-mails for sending spam to. Yes, the entire concept of Whitesmoke is a scam in more ways than one.

Whatever you choose, be absolutely sure to search for Whitesmoke on these forums, and read what others have to say about it, then avoid it.

I use Grammatica for German. It also has French and some other languages. I'm not sure if it will answer your needs, but it's a genuine product, unpretentious, and gives you a free trial. It is fully downloadable and works offline.

Thanks for the update Katherine. Everything about WhiteSmoke points to the fact that it is a scam - particularly the fact they market it as downloadable software, whereas it needs an Internet connection to work, and the fact that they make it as

Hi Jay, Congratulations on your new blog. I particularly like the a rticlre about free softwre licences. However, don't be fooled into thinking that WHITESMOKE has done a good job on your English. If you were to write in your native language

If you are having problems with Whitesmoke just remember to write about it on as many forums as possible - something has to be done to stop these Internet fraudsters.

I have paid versions of both Baylon (on a PC) and Ultralingua on a PCs and my Macs. I prefer the Ultralingua suite of language tools that have been around since time immemorial. Babylon is so similar that it is rumoured they copied the original

According to the overwhelming complaints on many forums, it is clear that WhiteSmoke is some kind of scam. Anyone with a little knowledge of adverstising will immediately notice this from the false claims on their website, and the way they do

As WhiteSmoke's paid spammer, you are quite happy to post text links to it. use you own version of WhiteSmoke. Oops - you can't, it's vaporware. It's nothing but SMOKE; NOTHING BUT SMOKE Hence the name.