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Re: Battlefield 2142 ships with spyware? Say it ain't so

said by spaterson:

said by Midak:

Ok, so has anyone actually seen the ads yet? The billboards are still not showing anything other than "IGA" (I think it says IGA) but nothing else. Maybe the spyware comes in later as a patch since they say now it will auto patch. As soon as I see an ad, I will check processes and HJT again.

I played for a few hours and didn't see anything. I think I saw the same "IGA" as you did, but I don't think it's IGA, or an ad. If that's an ad, it's a pretty poor ad.

Scott

reply to Midak
I own all the Battlefield games but . . . I'll NOT be purchasing this one.

reply to Midak
Apparently NFS Carbon will feature this same ad serving system.

There's another one I won't be buying.

(At least not until it's cracked.)
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reply to Midak
Apparently NFS carbon will not be in my shopping cart. F***k em all.

reply to Blackbird
M$ suggests that if you're having issues with the KB917422 patch, you can install KB924867 (from their website) to patch the vulnerability and allow affected apps (there are a ton of them) to run correctly.

So... You can re-patch the system after the original patch broke a bunch of apps, thus negating the whole removal thing.

reply to Midak
I'd like to know since when your IP address is anonymous. Seems like the **IA likes to use your IP address to track you down and find out who you are. Doesn't seem too anonymous to me.

There needs to be an opt out option. Barring that the only other way is to opt not to buy it. The funny thing is they still expect you to pay full price when they are pulling in ad revenue. The game still sells for $49.99.
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reply to salzan

said by salzan:

I won't be buying any game that uses this calling out/home activity. Even the auto patch feature previously mentioned by Midak is enough to put me off.

So what's next? Click on (or shoot) the ad to visit the website?

reply to Midak
»bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?a···id=72129 had a link on how to block the ads: »www.totalbf2142.com/forums/showt···p?t=5342

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reply to Midak
Perhaps they're monitoring where people look in game now so they could sell the more looked at ad spots for more? Anyone want to find out exactly what is being sent to the ad company?

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