Re: Realplayer security and privacy issues?
From: nemo_outis (abc_at_xyz.com)
Date: 05/31/05
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Date: 31 May 2005 12:43:08 GMT
"nemo" <nemo@newtylust.nit> wrote in
news:x4Yme.170901$Cq2.42560@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
> I haven't posted here for ages so I suppose I'd better introduce
> myself as a Newbie again.
>
> I accidentally deleted my old version of RealPlayer and yesterday, I
> downloaded the free basic version.
>
> It installed OK, plays a few more types of file and the picture
> quality is much improved. Fine I thought.
>
> But during the install, it repeatedly asked me for my postcode which
> I'd already submitted, (I have it listed as confidential info with a
> prompt instruction) and more disturbingly, it removed the Block
> Cookies rule from IE and my Norton firewall and used a huge number of
> them while installing. Fortunately it only altered the setting from
> 'Block All' to 'Prompt' in the firewall and that's how I realised what
> it had done.
>
> And on top of that, this morning RealPlayer contacted
> http://message.real.com/Msg/7.0/win32 resulting in my again being
> asked for my postcode. (That's UK for Zip Code, BTW.)
>
> The odd thing was - I didn't have RealPlayer running at the time and
> there's nothing new showing as running in the background when I hit
> CTRL+ALT+DEL.
>
> Any ideas before I ditch the thing and do without it? Flash and Media
> Player 7 have already gone that way for phoning home.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nemo
>
Yup, what you need is "real alternative" which ,although it has to use a
few realplayer DLLs, is clean of spyware and doesn't phone home. It's
widely available on the net (free!) and I believe the latest version is
1.38. One place to get it:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/real_alter
native.cfm
Regards,
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