I'm likewise curious. I'm terrified to update for fear of what has been ruined next. But likewise am not sure putting this trust in a 3rd party is any better.

> not since the port scanning from ebay have i seen something this reprehensible

That was the same company/script btw.

I know this may seem like a technical nit-pick, but it wasn't eBay specifically going out of their way to port scan your local machine. It's just that they decided to use one of the many third-party products in the marketplace to scan for bot activity that uses this technique. Protecting against bots is big business and the companies offering these services do all sorts of seemingly shady things to figure out if it's a bot or human visiting a site.