On 16/3/04, FRANK disgorged: >I don't know what ad/spyware is, but I've got Realplayer in the 'puter that >I use. > >What a freaking PIA! Everytime I put on a music CD to listen to whilst I >type away, Realplayer pops up, whether I want to use it or not (I usually >just delete it immediately). It then, obviously, sends information to some >unseen source of evil, and a pretty picture of the CD that I'm playing pops >up, along with reviews of the disc, along with other discs by that artist, >along with a pleasant invitation to download stuff, along with adverts that >I don't want to see. > >While all of this is going on, whatever else I'm doing runs real slow, until >I let the Realplayer window open completely, then delete, all of which takes >several minutes. And, I have to go through this every time I put on another >CD.
Strange. I have Realone Player for Macintosh vers 9.0 and none of this happens. If I click on a video link, it downloads a small file of just a few kilobytes and I double-click on that to start the video streaming. If I play a CD, it doesn't open at all. Perhaps you have to go into Real prefs and uncheck the 'open when inderting a CD' box? >Is that what adware/spyware is? I really don't like the fact that someone >somewhere knows what music I listen to. Lord knows what they're doing with >that information. And what's wrong with listening to Brittney Spears >anyway? (oops, went too far with that info <g>). > >BTW, Cotty, I did manage to look at a video on the Coroner's Inquest on the >Beeb, but maybe it was the wrong one? I didn't see you in it I don't think. Top right on this page - at 33 seconds in, during the pan of the court... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3513812.stm> I'm in the background somewhere - to be honest I couldn't see myself on my measly dial up connection (the quality is crap) but I knew I was there :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
