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Old December 3rd 18, 03:01 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default hardcode fotosketcher dialing home

On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:08:37 -0600, Jean Fredette
wrote:

Fotosketcher 3.30 keeps asking "Go to www.fotosketcher.com to download
version 3.40?"

There is no option in the settings to turn this off.

I can't find where Fotosketcher knows what version to get in taskschd.msc.
Fotosketcher Program Files has only fotosketcher.exe and unins000.exe.

Where does home dialing come from?
Is it hard code?
How can it be stopped?


Pull the plug on your network connector. If the program won't
load, you are fscked, I mean, "you lose" (unless you know a bit of
assembler AND it's not depending on some offline resource).

If it does work offline, just block it with a decent firewall.

https://www.privacyware.com/personal_firewall.html

Note the certificate on the site is weird. I advise you to
download it from somewhere safe like Softpedia.
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