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My college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students. (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't encounter a single program that bypassed the block applied by windows firewall control - after setup they usually don't have the admin rights anymore to control it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user

The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser