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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: <span class="yellowgreen">Low</span></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 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.
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          that my 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 itself 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. This program
          is spyware, because according to its privacy policy<sup
            ><a href="#s1">[1]</a></sup
          >, it collects information about its users.
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          <h4>Sources:</h4>
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              <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>
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        <b>This article was last edited on 7/29/2018</b>
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