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by Anonymous User on Sat Jul 09, 2005 at 03:18:33 AM PDT

the 1st thing i do befor i install software is tell the windows host file "%windir%\  system32\  drivers\  etc\  hosts" to point all websites involved with the product to 127.0.0.1 localhost
that solves most probs. then when i run it for the first time i spy on the registry (regmonitor)for any attempts to communicate with the outside world. some even invoke terminal services to blab about me!!! i then add those sites urls, ipaddresses etc to the hosts file as well. problem solved.
some times i block in the router as well.
tuh dah!

yay!

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