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BBC iPlayer: Hogware and hidden background services

bit-tech.net — It seems like even if you shut down the BBC iPlayer, a background process continues to run and use your internet connection as much as it likes. Only by ending the process in task manager will finally stop it. Bad BBC!

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  • T0Ka, on 02/04/2008, -0/+0Its not just iplayer that installs this malware, sky and 4 on demand also use the same hidden process to turn your pc into a botnet like server.

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