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From: favask <br.fyodor@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:31:53 +0200
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On 13.03.24 07:35, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 3/11/2024 11:54 PM, favask wrote:
>>
>> 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?