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Is RealPlayer a malicious program?

One of the most popular players on the market is covered by an advocacy group of consumers for new ads it installs its continued without let users know. RealNetworks RealPlayer has been known to be defective in its latest releases and when another patched a hole he created another.

The latest version, RealPlayer 11, automatically
Install Windows Media Player Engine. If it had been only that, the problem would not have taken the proportions it did. The boo-boo is that when you uninstall the reader, the rest additional software on the computer and occupies space (yes, it's not that big, but it counts), and especially power treatment. I forgot about possible safety deficiencies that may emerge in time with the EPR automatically that you would be exposed, without knowing it.

In RealNetworks defense, the driving force behind Rhapsody Player is required to access the company online music services, but that may be, and they know about the facility would not hurt. And it would not be too bad to provide Firefox with the updated version, and a recommendation to abolish the RealPlayer 10.5 "disappeared automatically install plugins" downloads.

The version 10.5, if it is not recorded on the producer of these pages, it presents a beautiful ad delivery Message Center. StopBadware.org, the group of consumers who complain, and that the protest began, states that: "It is installing, for the most part, a piece of adware without giving information on users that in advance. "Those two elements are an important statement on RealNetworks policy towards users, informing them little to what is really going on, according to Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware's manager.

The company producing the player says that it is simply oversights that will surely be addressed in future versions: "The fact that when you uninstall RealPlayer we did not go back and uninstall Windows Media Player is an oversight and it is something we should address in the future, "Ryan Luckin, a spokesman for RealNetworks, said InfoWorld. At the same time, the installation of version 10.5 and registration, it have told users that the Message Center will be installed, he said.

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