April 7th, 2004, 06:51 PM
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Re: OT: SPYWARE/TROJAN and Off Topic!
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Originally posted by Norfleet:
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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
Gandalf is right. It's a multiplayer CD-key check. Nothing more, nothing less.
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That's merely what you'd LIKE us to believe. You don't really think I'm that gullible, do you? No, I think there's something you're not telling us. Of course, you're not GOING to, since it's your little precious secret, but I'm going to rout it into /dev/null anyway. ET doesn't phone home on my watch.
So check the packet size. It shouldnt be hard to tell if its sending more than a key or more often than it needs to.
As far as blocking all programs contacting outward from your machine thats rather what I would have expected of you and various others here. I also tend to do more sniffing of my network traffic than most. But I dont think the average user is going to have a problem with just one more piracy protection. (and an effort to generate a coup would probably need to be in a newsgroup or something now that the answer has been given.)
[ April 07, 2004, 17:52: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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