POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: Why would pvengine.exe need to access the Internet?: Re: Why would pvengine.exe need to access the Internet?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Why would pvengine.exe need to access the Internet? : Re: Why would pvengine.exe need to access the Internet?		Server Time 3 Jul 2024 00:05:09 EDT (-0400)

From: Warp
Date: 30 Jul 2002 09:34:48
Message: <3d4695f8@news.povray.org>

gilroy <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I refused, because my policy is to block any program whose need to go onto
> the Net is less than clear to me.  And this one is.  Why is pvengine.exe
> asking to access the Internet?  Or is some other program spoofing me and
> trying to sneak by?

  When you installed POV-Ray, you answered "yes" to the question whether
POV-Ray could connect the internet periodically. Now you are answering "no".

  Perhaps you should read what the installation programs say to you?

  There shouldn't be any problem allowing POV-Ray to access the internet, if
you trust the pov-team. It checks for updates once a week, and I think that
the first time sends some information about your hardware for purely
statistical purposes.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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