Lyne opened this issue on Apr 06, 2003 ยท 20 posts
MightyPete posted Sun, 06 April 2003 at 2:38 PM
Attached Link: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#soft
Ya isn't that cool how they sort of snuck that in there? See if they put it in the eula first nobody would have bought it. Problem is a firewall might not save you because chances are you have allowed port 80 for IE or you have allowed some other port. Or it has a backdoor. Take your pick.The update program is what does it but I don't know how that program runs. Like I don't know what port it runs on and it could just use winsock32.dll to get on the web and chances are everyone has that enabled. Or run dll as a app. There is so many ways. Pathetic excuse for trusted computing.Trust no one. Expecially Microstuff. After all they just extorted you and misrepresented their eula as a harmless update. Once you agree to that one your petty much finnished. if you don't install the update it will just come with some harmelss update to media player or something else vital like direct X. Time to look at Redhat I'm afraid. Well maybe that's good news. After all if you could click I do not agree and it still installed 99.9% of the people would click I do not agree. You all got to start asking yourself who's computer is this anyway? It's going to get better. You got to click on that link and see into the future. It takes a while to read but it's worth it. It might not be 100% exactly perfect after all plans come and go but this guy is pretty close.