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3.2 KiB
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85 lines
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta
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http-equiv="Content-type"
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content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8"
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/>
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<title>CDex — Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class="case">
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<div class="nav"><a href="index.html">← Catalog</a></div>
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<div class="main">
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<img src="../images/cdex_logo.png" alt="CDex Logo" />
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<h1>CDex</h1>
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<p>
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CDex is an Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor.
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</p>
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<h2>Spyware Level: <span class="yellowgreen">Low</span></h2>
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<p>
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CDex's installer bundles it with spyware, and it will randomly suggest
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a spyware program to the user, with a chance to opt-out. Usually it
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attempts to bundle itself with the WebDiscover browser and one time I
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got it to try and offer me an antivirus program, but I wasn't able to
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reproduce this. The program was tested on Windows 7 32-bit with
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Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 and Wireshark 2.6.2. The version of the
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program tested was 2.06.
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<b
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><font color="lime"
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>It did not make any connections to the internet</font
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></b
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>
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that my tests were able to find. To test the program I ripped the
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audio files out of a CD with both network monitoring programs open.
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</p>
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<h3>Bundling with spyware</h3>
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<p>
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CDex attempts to bundle itself with the
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<a href="../articles/webdiscover.html">WebDiscover</a> web browser.
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This is an Opt-out and not an Opt-in like it should be. This program
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is spyware, because according to its privacy policy<sup
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><a href="#s1">[1]</a></sup
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>, it collects information about its users.
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</p>
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<img
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class="screenshot"
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src="../images/cdex_bundling.png"
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alt="CDex installer spyware opt-out screen"
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/>
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</div>
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<hr />
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<div class="footer">
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<div class="sources">
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<h4>Sources:</h4>
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<ol>
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<li id="s1">
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<a href="https://getwebdiscover.com/privacy/">WebDiscover Privacy Policy</a>
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<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20171224213336/https://getwebdiscover.com/privacy/">[web.archive.org]</a>
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<a href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Jyrbg?kreymer=false">[ghostarchive.org]</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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</div>
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<hr />
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<b>This article was last edited on 08/17/2021</b>
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<p>
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If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us
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at the git repo on
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<a href="https://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be
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accepted.
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</p>
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<a href="../LICENSE.txt">
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<img class="icon" src="../images/cc0.png" alt="CC0 License" />
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</a>
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</body>
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