[Reader-list] Just another Spying case after RealPlayer

[Bauke Freiburg]

Hi,

I've heard that the very populair Napster alternative Kazaa, installs 5
spyware programs on your computer and sends information about the computer
and users direct to commercial advertisers...that's even worse
then Real and Creative...

source: planet multimedia (dutch)
http://www.planet.nl/pmm/0,1674,101_1498_152386,00.html

Regards,

Bauke Freiburg
bauke at freiburg.nl



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaswinder Singh Kohli" <jskohli at fig.org>
To: "Reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: [Reader-list] Just another Spying case after RealPlayer


> 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
>
> --
> 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.....
>
>
> --
>
>
> Regards
> Jaswinder Singh Kohli
> jskohli at fig.org
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