Oil Change software snoops through hard drive

Alan Lewine alewine at dcez.com
Sun Jun 23 15:37:36 PDT 1996


<<I wrote:
>But this isn't MS's RegWiz. It's capabilities sound much greater, and
>it's not clear how to opt out, etc. >>Tim May replied:
<<Not buying it and not installing it would appear to be an easy way to 
"opt out.">>
Maybe i'm confused, but oil change sounds like a mole that can burrow 
unbidden into user's disks. I don't think user installation is required, 
or else it will auto install the user code on installation of whatever 
software has licensed it.
Alan L
http://www.dcez.com/~alewine






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