Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_player
"Past versions of RealPlayer have been criticized for containing features
similar to adware and spyware. PC World Magazine named
RealPlayer as #2 in its list of the 25 worst products of
all time, ... "had a disturbing way of making itself a little too much
at home on your PC--installing itself as the default media player,
taking liberties with your Windows Registry, popping up annoying
'messages' that were really just advertisements, and so on."
"In 2008 StopBadware.org called RealPlayer "badware" due to failure to
completely disclose software components it installs as well as those it
leaves behind after being un-installed. ...In 1999 security researcher Richard M. Smith dissected some of
RealJukebox's network traffic and discovered that it was sending a
unique identifier with information about the music titles to which its
users were listening. ...When RealPlayer is installed, a process called tkbell.exe will run
automatically each time the computer starts up, and may appear on the
list of active processes as realsched.exe. The process is linked to the
Message Center..." |
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| I no longer provide this audio in RealPlayer due to their
excessive licensing fees, and general "malware" or spyware policy.
Not the right thing for Admiral Peary at all! |
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