To talk more specifically about the software itself, it will check off "automatically check for updates" by default in the installer which is bad, but you can uncheck it.
When I actually ran it after installing, it did not make any unsolicited requests so it didn't have any problems. When I asked it to check for updates,
it used HTTP to talk to some server. HTTP is a little excessive and not good for privacy. But at least it doesn't phone home or anything, which is really
not something I expected after seeing the absolute disregard for user privacy when trying to install the program.
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4, ProcMon, and NoScript were used to check this program and it's installation process for spyware.
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<h3>Unsolicited connections in installation process</h3>
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When you try to download this program off of the developer's website (<ahref="http://www.poweriso.com/download.php">http://www.poweriso.com/download.php</a>), the download link,
which appears to be a link to: <code>http://www.fettcedob-nero.com/vf6o1o5/PowerISO7-x64.exe</code>, is actually a redirect to a website that tries to run a third
I could not manage to download this program with a Firefox-based browser, so I used a Chrome-Based browser to download it. Once I had enabled JavaScript and executed all of the
spyware involved, it attempted to get me to install this Chrome extension:
While this is not a review of search manager, it's worth noting that this extension is known adware at least, and who knows what else it does. Any searches about this
extension should explain this. But at the very least, assuming that you didn't install any spyware yet, you at least have the PowerISO installer...
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