"Brian Burger" wrote in message a.tc.ca...


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...

Only if you also kill off the @*&#! start center feature. We had a customer who
was griping about our software burping every second. Sure enough even when
RealPlayer isn't supposed to be doing anything it wakes up once a second and
steals away the CPU.