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Prey -- RETAIL Version --- does it phone home ???
"Austin Myers" <aust...@grm.net> wrote in message news:e1VINw4fGHA.5088@TK2MSFTNGP02. phx.gbl... In media player 11 there appears to be no way to stop the damn thing from phoning home with my "customer experiance". No I do NOT want to waste my time and bandwidth to phone home to the MS mothership.

The FAQ for <alt.privacy.spyware> [updated March 11, 2005]
John Lewis john....@verizon.net comp sys ibm pc games action comp sys ibm pc games rpg On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:48:09 +0200, Walter Mitty <mitti...@gmail.com> wrote: Zaghadka As for phoning home, my only real concern is whether any phone home secretly authenticates the Prey single-player module.

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Why did it not alert ms and the us to the 9/11 attacks? Surely bin laden and saddam use windows(what else would they use). Why can't it figure out when some teen He says a program setup_wm.exe is "phoning home", but a quick search on google says it a updater program for certain soundcards, trying to update the

Windows media player
Why do I need a single repository, I don't see why I should not trust the editor I download from http://www.ultraedit.com, or MP3 player I download from http://www.winamp.com/. The whole single repository, with the OS "phoning home" in order to get permission to execute a file is waaay too "Big Brother" for me.

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... comp freeware On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:11:45 GMT, The T <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: thinking; anyone figure out if there is a way to disable it's phoning home tendencies? I wanted to be able to disable Windows Media right from the get-go, too, because I'd like to have a player I can take elsewhere if need be.

The FAQ for <alt.privacy.spyware> [updated November 04, 2007]
Greg O n...@none.atall misc int-property http://www.sysinternals. com/blog/2005/11/sonys-rootkit-first-4-internet.html For those following the controversy Rights Management (DRM) software that includes a rootkit, has responded to my last post, More on Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs and Phoning Home.

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... microsoft public windowsmedia I have been using Windows Live OneCare for a firewall in Vista and have been blocking all network access for Media Player 11 for a year. The question for this newsgroup is why will Media Player not play local files unless I allow it to phone home when I click Play?

MediaPlayer 11, how to
Phoning Harrods department store and asking if he had got through to the HA Rods shop, before enquiring about returning an allegedly faulty vacuum cleaner which he .... cameras suspended from helium-filled balloons which range freely across the enormous Baroque instruments, and close-ups of the player's face.

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Additional Search menus under Tools >>> NEW And it still is spyware by phoning home to AOL and CS if you search from the address bar. 6. Spellchecker (as 6.2x) 7. No crashes yet ;) Netscape 6.2.x was extremelly stable in my case 11. MSNBC.com needs some "arm twisting evangelizing" from AOL.

Realplayer security and privacy issues?
As for "phoning home": I use ZoneAlarm, and I can block any piece of software from doing that. Presently, I have Windows Media Player blocked, because I don't think it's any of Microsoft's business *which* movie I watch. If it were only reporting on the *type* of file, I would be much more understanding;

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If (and ONLY "if") the application also engages in some sort of data logging/reporting (such as by "phoning home"; ie, reporting information or .... 11. Am I being spied upon? Imagine that every time you go online, a commercial internet application verifies its registration number against a licensing server.

Prey -- RETAIL Version --- does it phone home ???
Walter Mitty mitti...@gmail.com comp sys ibm pc games action comp sys ibm pc games rpg john....@verizon.net (John Lewis) writes: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:00:43 -0500, gray.wiz...@moria.mines As for phoning home, my only real concern is whether any phone home secretly authenticates the Prey single-player module.

Prey -- RETAIL Version --- does it phone home ???
I can assure you, it's not "player hating" because of being "envious" of others attempting it and succeeding, as, on that score, the British once had exactly ...... BBC played that pure piece of pathetic propoganda about some soldier phoning home to propose marriage to his girlfriend...oh, how cute...except, hello!

Internet protection
RealPlayer also had a disturbing way of making itself a little too much at home on your PC--installing itself as the default media player, security researcher Richard M. Smith discovered that the software was assigning a unique ID to each user and phoning home with the titles of media files played on it--while

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Fishlips fishl...@capnandysseafoodshack.com comp security firewalls On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:13:30 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk <se...@seppig.de> wrote: Fishlips wrote: A Windows Media Player from phoning home, to give one example. Windows Media Player is not phoning home. Please provide proof of your claims.

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That being said, exactly which apps are *phoning home*? And(as a bonus) *why* are these apps phoning home? My thinking is along the lines of compiling a list of such apps that *are* doing exactly that, phoning home. Think of it as an acf group effort for the better of the acf group. Windows Media Player, but I

Prey -- RETAIL Version --- does it phone home ???
This was an A's game worth phoning home about, but that was impossible to do from the visiting clubhouse. Pitcher Kenny Rogers did $1700 in damage by ripping A's 11, Giants 9. July 15, 1999, in Oakland: Considering how many times Stairs' name pops up in these Giants-A's classics, it's hard to imagine that his

Gott Mit Uns
Perhaps someone else can explain. mine's been "phoning home" at start up for years, hasn't hurt me yet. Some of the more recent iterations of windows media player also play mp4 Regards, Ty Ford -- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other audiocentric stuff are at www.tyford.com.

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He made eight of his first 11 kicks from 50 yards and beyond. Unprecedented. He was the best player on the lousy teams at first, and then he was the guy .... And he gave the exact reply you would expect from a 42-year-old kicker who was making field goals when the Police was still a band, and ET was phoning home.

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John Lewis john....@verizon.net comp sys ibm pc games action comp sys ibm pc games rpg On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:00:43 -0500, gray.wiz...@moria.mines wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:45:09 GMT, As for phoning home, my only real concern is whether any phone home secretly authenticates the Prey single-player module.