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My college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students. (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Or a firewall that doesn't rely on windows firewall, since programs will just whitelist themselves from it during installation

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 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

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