<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8" /> <title>CDex — Spyware Watchdog</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css" /> </head> <body> <div class="case"> <div class="nav"><a href="index.html">← Catalog</a></div> <div class="main"> <img src="../images/cdex_logo.png" alt="CDex Logo" /> <h1>CDex</h1> <p> CDex is an Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor. </p> <h2>Spyware Level: <span class="yellowgreen">Low</span></h2> <p> 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. <b ><font color="lime" >It did not make any connections to the internet</font ></b > 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. </p> <h3>Bundling with spyware</h3> <p> 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. </p> <img class="screenshot" src="../images/cdex_bundling.png" alt="CDex installer spyware opt-out screen" /> </div> <hr /> <div class="footer"> <div class="sources"> <h4>Sources:</h4> <ol> <li id="s1"> <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> </li> </ol> </div> <hr /> <b>This article was last edited on 7/29/2018</b> <!--Dont change--> <p> If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on <a href="https://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>. </p> <p> All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted. </p> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode"> <img class="icon" src="../images/cc0.png" alt="CC0 License" /> </a> <!--Dont change--> </div> </div> </body> </html>