I really want to know what XP sends..
BH
Am I off base or should I start to really worry about info that XP
asks me to send? I mean.. XP asked me to send a mini-dump.. Ok I did,
but now I see this article that states that Microsoft is getting a
little to much info. What kills me about this article is Microsoft
doesn't seem to care. What is really going to Microsoft through any XP
product? Hell our own U.S. Department of Energy warns about using
Office XP. What will they find in XP itself?
The best parts out of the article:
"The report could also contain customer-specific information, which
could be used to identify a person's identity, but will not be used.
After that..."Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at antivirus
company Sophos stated, "This is not a serious problem but an
interesting foible."
WHAT?
First off what the hell is foible?
START OF MIND UNIVERSITY:
foi·ble (foibl)n.
--- A minor weakness or failing of character.
END OF MIND UNIVERSITY:
Neil Laver, Windows marketing manager. "The report could also contain
customer-specific information, which could be used to identify a
person's identity, but will not be used."
OKAY ALL IS WELL?? NOT!
Is this MS person saying that only a few people at Microsoft can read
my critical data? How about NO ONE AT MICROSOFT READING MY &*$#^%@
DATA? Marketing people...
Can I hear from real people and not spin doctors from MS's marketing
dept.
Any ideas?
Steven Wüthrich
"BH" <isp...@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098483,00.html
>
By the way, is there a way to turn it off completely?
SG
there's a button for error reporting, click there and disable it
"Steven Wüthrich" <ds...@gmx.net> wrote in message
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TheStonge
here is what happens: basically:
if you CHOOSE (bloody option here - big buttons you get to push to say yes
send this or no don't send it) to send the error report... Windows will
include all data relevant to the error caused.
so yes, if you are working on a personall letter in MS word, and Word does
something funny - that personal letter will be sent do MS if you CHOOSE to
send it. but gee, it also lets you view the contents of the error report.
Most of the time, sending that report is a good idea - if your working on
some top secret document (that I assure you MS won't give 2 eggrolls about)
just don't send the error report.
Not a whole lot of stuff Microsoft can do behind your back without being put
out of business and fined to death.
sorry, if I seem upset here - but please please please stop being so
paranoid! there are laws in the United States of America (where MS resides)
and those laws protect the rights of its citizens and do not allow people to
spy on each other without due process. There is nothing complex about it.
"BH" <isp...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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TheStonge
IE5 - if you have XP you have IE6. temporary bug fixed as soon as they
found out about it - because it is 'techically' an invasion of privacy -
even though Microsoft could care less about whatever your working on - and
lets say some piece of child pornography gets send along with the error
report - and lets say MS sees it - and lets say they know who it came from -
and lets say they try to take YOU (little old you) to court over this illgal
image... they have NO case because the data was obtained unlawfully.
"TheStonge" <ston...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Vlar Schreidlocke
sends it and on what port, Then make a firewall rule to stop whatever
you don't want going out. Or, better yet, figure out where it's going,
what format it is in, etc. and make a script that generates lots of
bogus info in the same format and sends it to the particular MS
server.
NewB
"Vlar Schreidlocke" <vla...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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BH
> Can you point us to a good sniffer utility? Thank you kindly!