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Warning! Installing GraphViz with ECLiPSe 5.8
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| Nameless 2005-02-16, 9:00 pm |
| When installing ECLiPSe 5.8 you are given the option of
installing GraphViz. DON'T DO IT!
GraphViz installs libexpat.dll, which is spyware. It
generates popup advertisements and alters your browser
settings. This is a serious privacy violation.
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| Jan Wielemaker 2005-02-17, 4:04 pm |
| On 2005-02-16, Nameless <news.mail@chello.no> wrote:
> When installing ECLiPSe 5.8 you are given the option of
> installing GraphViz. DON'T DO IT!
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> GraphViz installs libexpat.dll, which is spyware. It
> generates popup advertisements and alters your browser
> settings. This is a serious privacy violation.
libexpat is in the open source community a well respected XML parser.
If this one does weird things I assume someone has played a trick with
this distribution.
(not involved in ECLiPSe or the expat library)
--- Jan
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| Nameless 2005-02-17, 8:58 pm |
| "Nameless" <news.mail@chello.no> wrote in message
news:BZPQd.2406$Mw3.1506@amstwist00...
> When installing ECLiPSe 5.8 you are given the option of
> installing GraphViz. DON'T DO IT!
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> GraphViz installs libexpat.dll, which is spyware. It
> generates popup advertisements and alters your browser
> settings. This is a serious privacy violation.
It appears I might have been too hasty in my judgement!
I took for granted a report from my anti-spyware tool,
Microsoft AntiSpyware, which had quarantined libexpat.dll
for the reasons stated in my prior message. Apparently
Microsoft AntiSpyware quarantined libexpat.dll on the
basis of it being used by some spyware products, which
doesn't mean that all products that use libexpat.dll are
spyware products!
It is important to state that I have not actually
experienced any adverse effects after installing Graphviz.
On reflection, I'm appalled at my overreaction to the said
report; I guess I'm getting lazy (a poor excuse, I know)!
My sincere apologies to all concerned, not least to AT&T
(Graphviz) and cisco Technology Inc. (ECLiPSe). Rest
assured, I think ECLiPSe is a very fine product.
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