Re: Realplayer security and privacy issues?
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 05/31/05
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:58:33 GMT
From: "nemo" <nemo@newtylust.nit>
| 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
|
There have ben several vulbnerabilities noted in RealAudio. There are also exploits for the
vulnerabilities and require replacing the software, patching the software or upgrading the
version.
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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