Why does my Google Desktop search contact internet?
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, December 14, 2004
Occassionally Google Desktop Search contacts internet, even when I am not using it.
This makes me nervous. It feels intrusive to have something which can view and possibly ( not that I would doubt Google of commiting such an act… or would I?) send critical financial information out of the computer.
I have blocked google from directly accessing the internet using firewall. However it may still piggy-back on other services to access the internet.
I have stopped using Google Desktop for sometime now.
Call me a paranoid..but then only the paranoid survive.
I will be looking at Copernic.
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