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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 04:22:41PM -0400 or thereabouts, Miller, James wrote:
> FileOpen is a very (mysterious and) powerful program (it's mystery is only
> exceded by its power) you can use to place all kinds of restrictions on how a
> file is viewed, printed, used, copied, etc. We used it on a CD subscription
> product to make files "time-out" after 3 months. It works very well for that
> sort of stuff but it is a plug-in which in some corporate environments can
> cause problems. It's a legitimate program that is trying to validate if you
> should be viewing, copying, transfering or printing the manual. It's not a
> virus or trojan. At least not in the traditional sense. =]
As far as I'm concerned it's a trojan. First it stated that it was going to
download from Adobe's site, but it takes one to an IP#, which obviously isn't
Adobe. I've bought the right to open this thing, as I bought the product. I simply
can't comprehend this. I guess I could understand, if it was an additional purchase,
but one expects a manual with a product one has bought. Oh well, it's going back
tomorrow morning. :) Really quite bush league in my opinion, I mean one has to
enter a serial # to install the game, so that should be the end of it. <shaking
head>
Oh, well, back to regularly scheduled programming.
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S.Allen
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barnyard Wednesday Apr 07 2004 04:35:01 PM EDT
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