This was posted to another site...........those with FTM might be
interested.
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"FAMILY TREE MAKER, VERSION 9: A WARNING
It has come to my attention that Family Tree Maker may be up to no good
with the latest version (9) of their genealogy program. Since I don't
use FTM with any degree of proficiency (I use Legacy), I'm passing along
this warning by way of copy and paste. Those of you who use FTM will
want to read this carefully:
"Mattel, the parent company of FTM has included tracking software in
Version 9 which keeps track of everything you do on the internet and
sends a log of your surfing habits to Mattel every time you log on. The
log file is called "aqueduct" and can be found in the root directory of
your C drive. I have deleted the file and gone back to version 8.
"I discovered {this] quite by accident. In an unrelated attempt to fix
one of my screwups on my hardrive, I discovered the file called
"aqueduct" and opened it as I didn't know what it was. I discovered that
it was a log of all my surfing habits and I now know, it covered the
period from when I installed the FTM 9 upgrade to the date I discovered
it and deleted it. I didn't realize it was a FTM by product until I
tried to open FTM (after deleting aqueduct) and I got an error message
saying "Aqueduct" was missing -- it seems that without the file, FTM
version 9 will not run at all. Since I detest tracking software of any
kind, I uninstalled FTM version 9 and reinstalled FTM version 8. Note:
You will have to open and rename your database backup copy as any
database file that you opened and stored in version 9 will be useless."
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Al Jensen
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