▲ 317 ▼ My college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students. (programming.dev) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (1 child) Or a firewall that doesn't rely on windows firewall, since programs will just whitelist themselves from it during installation permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) I didn't encounter a single program that bypassed the block applied by windows firewall control - after setup they usually don't have the admin rights anymore to control it permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) It's pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) I didn't encounter a single program that bypassed the block applied by windows firewall control - after setup they usually don't have the admin rights anymore to control it permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) It's pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) It's pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser permalink fedilink source parent
