<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by deep:
Bandwidth, servers, etc. all cost money, and since people aren't paying for mp3's, that money has to come from somewhere.
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You make good points deep, but if what POE says is true, then VX2 goes far beyond what's acceptable. Apparently it goes beyond collecting information on your web usage and plaguing you with pop ups by retrieving everything you type into web forms and sending it back to their servers. VX2's web site claims that sensitive data like credit card numbers and banking information won't be recorded (they don't say, however, how they do that), but frankly I'm highly suspicious of a company who's contact info is a hotmail address.
I first read of this a little while ago on another board. I installed audiogalaxy a few months ago, so I searched my system and found the vx2.dll file. I had sent web based email and done internet banking on that machine. For all I know, some mysterious company was collecting some potentially sensitive information about me and I had absolutely no idea. This was with regular scans with Adaware. . . it didn't catch it, and I check for reference file updates at least once a week. I don't know if adaware is catching the vx2 file now, because I removed it manually.
So, yeah, I'm a little bitter/freaked out about the whole thing. Now I'm reading through the click-through standard form contracts of everything I install (hidden away towards the end, the audiogalaxy contract informs people that by installing audiogalaxy they're also installing this vx2 thing), but I don't really think that's a fair solution. . . even if people do read them, many computer users (myself included) don't have the technical or legal knowledge to make sense of the terms, so they end up agreeing to something that they don't really understand.
But that's a whole other topic, so I'll end my tangent now.
