jtd wrote:
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:57, Rony wrote:
Even out of the FOSS world there is a lot of freeware (no-freedom, no-charge) available as alternative software.
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.
Regards,
Rony.
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