Re: R2006a installer behaviour

Dan Pearce wrote:


I would imagine that it is trying to report some details to the
companies server so as to either validate you as an authorised user
or
maybe just to record things like how many copies are in active use.

There is already many cracked copies of MATLAB (of which R2006a is
one,
but i'm sure that isn't related to you) so this is kind of common
place
now to try and prevent this. If it is not stated in the
documentation
then there should be no personal or incriminating information
transfered. It probably doesn't state that there is a need for an
internet connection as there is a way of validating by post or
phone so
it isn't essential



Thanks for the contribution.

I forgot to mention that because the installer was trying to connect
to the internet when it was impossible to do so, the installer just
hanged. I had to crash it, which is never a good idea, and had to
start all over again. The point I was trying to make was that if the
installer is going to connect to the internet, it should say
somewhere prominent on the packaging or the documentation that that's
what it's going to do. And, in any case, if the installer tries to
connect to the internet and fail (or try anything else and fail) it
should tell you that that's what happened, not just hang.

But as you say, user verification is probably about right...

Bull Dog
.

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