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Why is it making network connections when I run it?
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Good to know. How do you test if a program makes network connections? Do you just open Wireshark and look at outgoing traffic?
Did you check what the connections are about ? Maybe it is only checking for new updates ?
It wanted to download a zip file. Apparently it was a theme. But, I’m not letting a local file manager talk to the internet randomly. If I want to update it, I’ll update it myself. Or, at least provide an option to enable it on first run.
Uninstalled.