On Thursday 14 December 2006 22:17, Rony wrote:
True. However most of these send out info. This is mostly unknown to the user, until he is put behind a restricted proxy. On a freshly proxied setup in a winblows shop unknown transmits are on the avg 40% of the total.
The freeware I download is first tested in my system under an interactive firewall. After disabling automatic updates, if it still tries to access the net, its dumped. I also read user reviews before downloading.
Good practice - within the constraints u have to operate ;-).