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February 01, 2004

Spyware-free Real Audio Player

The BBC is making a spyware-free version of Real Audio Player available for download. This is a step in the right direction. I strongly dislike the free version of the Real Player more than I realized. This week I spoke to a friend who said, "I know your feelings about the Real Player, but I have a question about it." :-)

(Via BoingBoing)

Basically, if a user clicks on a link to download Real Player from a BBC website, the referrer script sends them to a page where they can download an expiry-free, spyware-free and nuicance-free version of the player.

Posted by michael at February 1, 2004 10:33 PM

Comments

Thanks for the link! Worth pointing out that for Windoze, that devilish realsched.exe still runs... under a pseudonym. I used the Startup control panel to disable the service (which was called "TkBellExe" BTW). The control panel is here:

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Posted by: Ben Poole at February 9, 2004 05:43 AM

The BBC version is not spyware free, but it does have less spyware than the normal version.

Real do make a version without spyware, for large companies who won't tolerate that type of thing.

It's called "Real Enterprise Desktop" - and you can download it from the Real web site.

Posted by: Me at February 13, 2004 03:54 AM

That version is Windows only and you can download it from http://forms.real.com/rnforms/products/tools/red/

Posted by: michael at February 13, 2004 06:20 AM

Thanks for that guys, i need real player for my sony device, but what i didn't need was spyware!
Cheers, matt

Posted by: Matthew at February 19, 2004 04:29 AM