Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

On 13.03.24 07:35, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 3/11/2024 11:54 PM, favask wrote:

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You can check it yourself: there are plenty of traffic monitors around. Run them and see where the traffic goes.

  The culprit is not there for you to see anytime you want. They sneak in while you're busy doing other stuff, not running a traffic monitor.
 For instance, this Edge, I have had two occasions which I ran task manager to make sure it wasn't running, but almost right after, when I ran the Ccleaner garbage cleaner it told me "Edge needs to be closed before it could run". Then right away, I'd go back to task manager and would see Edge running there! Two times.
 And tens and tens of other times I got the same message from Ccleaner but didn't check the task manager to see Edge was running. Just had Cleaner itself close the Edge.
 This is after I had done everything to get rid of Edge. I even delete every "Edge" folder on my computer every time they appear by themselves.
 This is abuse. This is what "America Online" was doing to computers. You couldn't get rid of it. If nowhere else anymore, then you'd find one AOL file under your pillow in bed. Another one up your ass when you took a dump. And one more in your mail box. And ...
 

For Windows, I can readily believe that it is indeed the case. However, one thing I would first rule out, though, is that maybe it is CCleaner itself that triggers Edge in the background, and then happily displays the message that you need to close it?