Re: RealPlayer is attempting to access the internet

From: Robert Moir (bofh_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:37:53 +0100

Isopropyl wrote:
> RealPlayer is accessing the Internet for many things, one
> being to check out the name of the artist on a CD you are
> playing and listening to through RealPlayer (assuming you
> have this option on).

Right. That isn't my problem.

> How do you consider RealPlayer "spyware?"

Because it is (or at least *was* the last time i infected a computer with it
to see what it did) indeed spyware. Clear enough?

It isn't just me who dislikes it
http://www.grc.com/downloaders.htm
http://www.krellan.com/rant/real.html

> I guess you
> consider Windows Media Player spyware also since it too
> tries to access the Internet.

No. Unlike the Realplayer crud, I've never caught Media Player doing things
i've explicitly told it not to do.
If you don't like Windows Media Player there are plenty of other
alternatives out there besides Real. 

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