It uses OpenCandy which executes on your machine regardless. You then get offered different recommendations depending on your profile/location. Depending on the choices you make OpenCandy may hang around on your system for a while to gather and send metrics. Safest/easiest option is to extract ImgBurn from the installer as previously mentioned.
www.imgburn.com - Unsafe according to Chrome
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Nonsense. If you're going to make such claims, back them up with some evidence.
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Installed the latest version on a laptop at work to make a few copies of some stuff and Sophos corporate flags up Opencandy. It removed it but then imgburn didn't function properly.
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Hmm when I installed this last week, I didn't get any open candy installed on my system. Unless it's silent and runs in the background?
Downloaded it from Techspot or Softpedia, using the links found on the Imgburn website.
Downloaded it from Techspot or Softpedia, using the links found on the Imgburn website.
Fact. OpenCandy executes and gathers metrics regardless. OpenCandy will be running with elevated permissions.
When the installer is run on your computer our small plug-in runs temporarily along with it but is not installed permanently on your computer. The plug-in shows you an app recommendation and is designed to then be deleted from your computer when it has finished operating. Should you accept an app recommendation, an OpenCandy helper application may run periodically on your computer for up to a few days to verify if the recommended app was activated and then it deletes itself automatically.
If you do not accept a recommendation the main app installation completes and our small plug-in terminates and automatically deletes. Anonymous statistics are transmitted about the installation of the developer’s app to help the developer understand this just happened but no personally identifiable information is ever transmitted or collected.
http://opencandy.com/faqs/
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But normally that will be an app you intended to install and agreed to. Not one that you don't want and declined/rejected. If you do happen to not click the right combination of buttons and let something in then OpenCandy really takes hold.I've never seen any other app do this, ever.
My point is it is much easier and safer to avoid the installer altogether. Alternatively you can keep blindly running installers which have been flagged as containing PUP. I'm sure nothing bad will happen, ever.