Attached Link: http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html

We've all seen them - text boxes full of obnoxious legalese that pop up JUST as you are about to install some new program. "BY CLICKING THE ACCEPT BUTTON YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE BLAH BLAH LICENSE AGREEMENT. 1. License Grant - 2.Termination - 3. Disclaimer Of Warranty - 4. Exclusive Remedy - 5. Assignement of First Born Child - 6. Etc. Etc. Etc." As you may know, these terms are the EULA (End User License Agreement) for the software. If you are like me and like most other people, you just click "Accept" and get on with your day. You've already decided you want to try the software, and who has time to read all that stuff anyway? Unfortunately, in today's digital world, mindlessly clicking the "Accept" button is like going outside wearing your "Kick Me" T-shirt. Software companies of all stripes from big "respected" companies like Sony & Microsoft to little one-guy-in-Mom's-basement programming shops can and DO hide nasty surprises in the EULA. Surprises like "we can download somebody else's spyware onto your machine and not tell you about it" or "we can install snooping software on your computer and hide it from you" or "we can put our own pop-up advertising all over your web browser, your desktop and even your word processor." The EULA often hides things that might make you think twice about installing the software at all. They are counting on you not to read the legal stuff (in fact, the EULA is as long as it is and written as confusingly as it is to DISCOURAGE you from reading it.) This is so that when you have a problem, or object to their obnoxious attempt to turn *your* PC into *their* spam factory, they can point to the EULA and smugly say "You agreed to let us do it! It's right there in the EULA and if you didn't agreee you shouldn't have clicked the ACCEPT button!" Now you have a way to be on your guard (other than getting your own law degree.) Javacool software has written a program called the EULAlyzer. You copy the text of the EULA and paste it into the EULAlyzer, and the program scans the text for terms and conditions that you might want to know about. For instance, I pasted the Poser 6 EULA into it, and the only thing that was hightlighted were a number of occurrences of the term "third party" which can be a red flag that a software program might install other programs on your PC without your notice. EULAlyzer rated each occurrence as not too serious, and let me jump directly to the section of the EULA where the term appeared. In the Poser 6 license, all the "third party" provisions are sensible and relatively benign. So check it out, and make sure to read the EULAlyzer EULA before you install it! ;-) Seriously, they do make it clear that they are not providing legal advice, and there are some terms in there with privacy connotations, especially if you use the program to send any of your own information to Javacool. Nothing serious, but you should know about them just in case. - Jimdoria ~@>@

• Jimdoria  ~@>@

Mmh. Would be nice a TOSlyzer... MWHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA :D

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"Poser isn't a SOFTWARE... it's a RELIGION!"

I just changed my virus detection software and it is signaling that my DAZ installers are installing spyware as well as content. I have not checked to see if these are from older or newer installers.

"...DAZ installers are installing spyware..." I think there was a tread or two saying that's a false indication. I've installed some old and new Daz stuff recently and my anti-spyware hasn't complained. Plus given the way this crowd is, Daz would have probably been hung, crucified, burned at the stake, drawn and quartered, castrated, disemboweled, impaled, flayed, decapitated, defenestrated, water boarded and led around on a leash if they even contemplated doing such a thing.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

Well, actually, with the last couple of DAZ installers, I didn't get a flag, but when launching the Readme, there was also an add window that came up, plus a request to download a dll library. Very strange.

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I wondered if it was real... I suppose if someone did up a list of "hot words" people who don't have the software could just run a search with something like EditPadLite which has the neat feature of the option of "always on top". I use it to edit huge cr2 files while Poser is running.