This is news?? RealPlayer has been badware for years now.
Just because your favorite antivirus or antispyware program doesn't report RealPlayer doesn't mean that it is benign. Anything that doesn't uninstall cleanly is badware, and there is absolutely NO excuse for that. The vendor knows what they are doing to your system, so they can bloody-well back all of it out when you uninstall. It's worse that RealPlayer doesn't tell you what 3rd-party stuff it is installing, because there's no recourse if it pukes on your system.
If you want to play RealMedia, use RealAlternative. RealNetworks doesn't get any space on my system until they clean up their act.
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