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1: Is it safe?
2: Can I get viruses through a network like this?
3: Can I get spyware and/or cookies from a network like this?
4: Can someone steal my password from a network like this?
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If not, which one do you mean?
If you are talking about the chat: It is very, very unlikely that anything could happen through the Clonk-ingame-IRC client that affects the rest of your computer.
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>If not, which one do you mean?
I mean my windows 7's security password.
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When you click network, Clonk tries to connect to the masterserver to get the list of open games. And I think windows just asks for the password, because Clonk tries to open an internet connection.
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> And I think windows just asks for the password, because Clonk tries to open an internet connection.
It's called "Windows Firewall"
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The only way someone could use this to harm you is either to change the server address (see OC options; but this requires access to your computer) or to spot a bug in OC which makes it possible to send malicious data over the master server (which is very unlikely).
That's not the real cause. It also opens a broadcast listening port and that requires a firewall exception, which has to be added. That is a change to the computer.
Didn't our installer add a firewall rule for OC?
Didn't our installer add a firewall rule for OC?
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"change to your computer"
sounds as if your monitor would turn pink permanently or something like that.
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