Auto update checks? Yes they do. Newer versions use a version of FLEXnet from macrovision for licensing. This runs at startup and if deleted is created again. You might see it using Task Manager called FNPLicensingService.
but why run the serivce if you can just initiate it yourself. running more and more services on a pc just boggs it down. and do we really know that this is all its doing?
The service probably just updates the specific files that 'have' updates available... do you realize what an update is and/or how it works? how they communicate?
1a. It probably does report serial, activation date, and some other stuff, but if you read their privacy statement and EULA, you'll know exactly what they are collecting... or supposedly SAY they are collecting
You have the option of running it yourself, you don't have the option of turning the automatic update process off, thus the 'automatic' part.... Don't know, that's just the way it was written... Do we know? Not until you inspect the packets going across the wire and find out...
Don't be so paranoid... if you wanna know for sure, dig up some info, read it, and start looking at the packets...
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