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It seems though that we've found a free firewall that solves the issue of Party scanning your harddrive (for anything) or screen scraping, now we are kind of torn about what to do about it....

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I'll freely admit that I'm pretty ignorant about these things, but I'm not inclined to believe that you've found any such thing. Unless they send the screen-scrape data to some other address, how are you preventing that information from going to Party without also preventing necessary game play information? Furthermore, I think that if Party notices that they are not getting data that they expect from your machine they're going to get pretty upset and figure something sneaky is going on anyway, so I don't see how this could be a realistic solution.