This is a page devoted to those who don't like having
their windows software ratting them out to various IP
addresses without permission.
As the Internet has become taken for granted, and more and more
users are constantly connected, applications have started to
"phone home" -- contacting unknown parties either simply to
announce that they have been run, or to check a license, or to
pass on information about useage, files accessed, etc. Some of
us view this as an invasion of privacy or worse! This page will
teach you how to stop this behavior, and present some of the
insidious ways in which commonly used applications rat you
out unannounced.