Make sure the Send anonymous statistics box is unticked if you already have Daemon Tools installed and didn’t know about Mountspace. Untick Enable Media Info Panel to stop the program reading your current ISO hash to request statistics from the Mountspace server about it. When you have installed the program, go to preferences and the Media Info option window. If you want to install Daemon Tools, during the install process make sure to click the option Don’t allow Mountspace to use my statistics: Use a version of Daemon Tools Lite prior to 4.40.1 because anything before that doesn’t include the Mountspace service and therefore isn’t a concern. If you still want to use Daemon Tools or already have it installed and wish to keep it, there are a couple of things you can do to stop Mountspace from collecting or sending any information. Add to that, the extras that keep getting added and bloating the software out when perhaps all you want is to mount an ISO and nothing more, and you can see why it isn’t the hugely popular utility it once was.

Unsurprisingly, this has turned many users away from Daemon Tools even if they have now made this option more transparent. Although it has been clarified now, there was a distinct lack of any information about this at the time in either the Daemon Tools or Mountspace privacy policies which in many people’s eyes was unacceptable. There was also rumor that it was sending IP addresses too, but that was strongly denied. This essentially collects usages statistics on all ISO’s you mount in the software like image hash, image file name, disk label, number of mount occurrences and sends it to to be logged. That’s why there was quite a controversy in 2012 when the well known virtual drive software Daemon Tools decided to include a service called Mountspace starting in version 4.40.1. And rightly so too, with so many privacy issues to watch out for these days, the last thing you want is software you perhaps trusted do it as well. A lot of PC users get very annoyed when a piece of software access’s the internet without their knowledge and does things like phoning home without consent.

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