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The program is probably hooking into the web browser, because you need to start some Origin games (BF 3) via the browser! Yeh, I'm not joking.

A similar thing happened for me with Googleupdate.exe it scanned all my hard drives ... They don't do it any more but I still remove googleupdate.exe every time it magically gets installed on my system.

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That is my guess also, it's actually probably just looking for their specific plug-in.

See slide 21 http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/battlelog-building-scal...

That doesn't mean there isn't any leakage they technically can/can't see. No clue if any of that info gets phoned home.

One of the problems with encrypting almost everything, even pictures of your dog, is that it no longer brings suspicion ... And programs like these can send any information without you knowing about it. Encrypted data is not a security protection, it's a security risk! Because you have no idea what information they send. Probably a lot more then they tell you, because there's no way you can find out.

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