[BlueTemplar]

Sorry, but the risk that there's a backdoor (that doesn't phone home, or at least not regularly enough to be easily spotted) would be just way too high for my liking.

This is orders of magnitude worse than using Windows8+ !!

[andreygrehov]

Agreed. That's also one of the reasons I wouldn't want to install anything of that sort these days. The risk is too high. Back then (10+ years ago), just to stay on the safer side, I think I even firewalled all the outbound network traffic originating from the spyware, even though there was none.