On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Larry Dighera wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:05:17 GMT, "John T" wrote in
Message-Id: om:

Unfortunately, RealPlayer installs background
tasks that border on spyware.

RealPlayer is so invasive as to be disabled on my system.

I've used my firewall to cut RealPlayer off from the internet - now it's a
*much* better behaved program. No irritating popups, no demands to be
updated, it just plays .rm videos when I want it too...

Brian.