Sky Anytime P2P service

Hi,

I found out about sky's "anytime" service just before Christmas and
thought it was a good idea. There are quite few movies (although not
all that many most people would want to download) available for
download. So long as you are a sky movies subscriber you can get most
of them for nothing. After browsing the web I have discovered that
lots of people are unhappy about this service because it is little more
than a p2p application that runs in the background even when the sky
anytime program has been closed. For those people on a limited monthly
contract this could potentially cost people extra monthly charges from
their ISPs.

There are websites that explain how to edit the registry to stop
kservice.exe from uploading from your machine and bleeding your
bandwidth away. Am I missing something or is not far easier to set
your firewall to prompt for permission each time kservice.exe tries to
access the internet?

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Hi,

I found out about sky's "anytime" service just before Christmas and
thought it was a good idea. There are quite few movies (although not
all that many most people would want to download) available for
download. So long as you are a sky movies subscriber you can get most
of them for nothing. After browsing the web I have discovered that
lots of people are unhappy about this service because it is little more
than a p2p application that runs in the background even when the sky
anytime program has been closed. For those people on a limited monthly
contract this could potentially cost people extra monthly charges from
their ISPs.

There are websites that explain how to edit the registry to stop
kservice.exe from uploading from your machine and bleeding your
bandwidth away. Am I missing something or is not far easier to set
your firewall to prompt for permission each time kservice.exe tries to
access the internet?

This looks like Sky By Broadband under another name and that set up the
kservice.exe on your pc whic seems to use lots of resources and slows your
machine down.

Avoid.