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J. M. Pescado
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Re: Sims 2 changing my internet connection
« Reply #25 on: 2009 April 22, 01:31:21 »
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EAxis you fool. It is spyware, the reason they give is to make sure you have a legit copy, but it could be used for more malicious means. Even if not by EA but hackers making programs to piggyback on the traffic.
Actually, the information sent back is sufficient to allow malicious usage just by the timing information alone. You can glean LOTS of fascinating data just from SigInt.
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Re: Sims 2 changing my internet connection
« Reply #26 on: 2009 April 22, 04:39:36 »
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Marhis, I'm trialling Comodo at the moment. It's free and I think so far, better than Zone Alarm.
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« Reply #27 on: 2009 April 22, 05:18:40 »
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I'm currently using Comodo, and have used Zone Alarm in the past. I liked Zone Alarm but it seemed to be conflicting with PeerGuardian (no idea if it really does that much good, but it makes me feel better!) so now I'm trying Comodo. So far I haven't had any problems, though I'm noticing that it tends to give me more pop-ups than ZA did. I switched from the windows firewall because, as was already pointed out, it doesn't give you the option to block programs (looking at you, TS2) from connecting to the internet.
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Re: Sims 2 changing my internet connection
« Reply #28 on: 2009 April 22, 10:02:08 »
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Yeah, it does tend to nag a bit until it settles into your usual routine.
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