Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Do you read the EULA when you install a program?

What's a EULA? This is the Licence Agreement to which we all routinely click "I Accept". Most times it's OK and you don't sign yourself into slavery BUT, especially with freeware, you can give authority to display pop-up ads, transmit personally identifiable information, use unique identifiers to track you, or much much more. It is time consuming, tedious, difficult.
EULAlyzer can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases.
The Benefits
* Discover potentially hidden behavior about the software you're going to install
* Pick up on things you missed when reading license agreements
* Keep a saved database of the license agreements & documents you view
* Instant results - super-fast analysis in just a second
And with additional features like the EULA Research Center, which optionally allows users to anonymously submit license agreements they scan to help us to further improve the program, everyone can be a part of the effort to make something that used to be so tedious, so easy.
Read about Eulalyzer
Download it from Major Geeks

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