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<title>CDex - Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<img src="../images/cdex_logo.png" alt="cdex logo">
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<h1>CDex</h1>
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CDex is an Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor.
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<h2>Spyware Level: <font color=yellowgreen>Low</font></h2>
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CDex's installer bundles it with spyware, and it will randomly suggest a spyware program to the user, with a chance to opt-out.
Usually it attempts to bundle itself with the webdiscover browser and one time I got it to try and offer me an antivirus program, but
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I wasn't able to reproduce this. The program was tested on Windows 7 32-bit with Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 and Wireshark 2.6.2.
The version of the program tested was 2.06. <b><font color="lime">It did not make any connections to the internet</font></b> that my
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tests were able to find. To test the program I ripped the audio files out of a CD with both network monitoring programs open.
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<h3>Bundling with spyware</h3>
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CDex attempts to bundle it self with the <a href="../articles/webdiscover.html">WebDiscover</a> web browser. This is an Opt-out and not an Opt-in like it should be.
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This program is spyware, because according to it's privacy policy<sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>, it collects information about it's users.
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<img class="screenshot" src="../images/cdex_bundling.png" alt="CDex installer spyware opt-out screen">
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<h2>Sources</h2>
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<a name="1">1.</a>
<a href="https://getwebdiscover.com/privacy/">WebDiscover Privacy Policy</a>
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20171224213336/https://getwebdiscover.com/privacy/">[web.archive.org]</a>
<a href="http://archive.is/Orpq6">[archive.is]</a><br>
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This article was last edited on 7/29/2018
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<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode"><img class="icon" src="../images/cc0.png" alt="CC0 Liscence"></a>
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