Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 14:11:21 12/23/00
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On December 23, 2000 at 16:21:15, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >It might even be something it >expects to be part of your local Windows environment, can't find - and tries to >gather from the Internet - maybe through the update function of windows. Close. Windoze and IE use a LOT of the same dlls. It's not searching for it on the Internet, it's just looking for it on your hard drive as part of the initialization process (otherwise, when you *do* click "Register Nimzo", you'd get another delay and we'd get a crapload of calls about how the program is "locking up"), so the initialization of the dll is just built into the delay you get when you launch Nimzo (as it fires up the GUI and initializes the tablebases). You can easily test whether or not Nimzo is "spyware". Uninstall Nimzo then reinstall it. Start a firewall program like ZoneAlarm. Get online. Then start Nimzo for the first time. If Nimzo is trying to access the Internet, ZoneAlarm will display a dialogue asking if Nimzo should be granted permission to access the 'Net. Guess what? It's not trying. So you won't get the dialogue. -- Steve Lopez
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