[Reader-list] Just another Spying case after RealPlayer

[Jaswinder Singh Kohli]

Creative Labs accused of spying
             Irate customers are accusing Creative Labs, the maker of
digital-audio
             players and sound cards, of spying on them. The dispute
revolves
             around a piece of software called newsupd.exe, installed
with the
             software that comes with most Creative products. A number
of
             customers say the software is connecting them to the
Internet without
             their authorization and relaying data secretly back to
Creative servers.
             People also say newsupd.exe installs itself on the sly.
Creative admits
             the feature needs tweaking, but says it is basically there
to help
             consumers.
            For details.......................

 http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=hBtZ0BA1Pc0V0clQ0AC

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Some time ago Real.com 's realplayer  was doing the same thing after
searching the
users disk for mp3 and other types of music the software upon connecting
to NET
sends secretly to the real server.....


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Regards
Jaswinder Singh Kohli
jskohli at fig.org
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