On Wed, June 14, 2006 12:11 pm, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:06:35PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Your not allowed to uninstall it and it phones home and tells uncle Bill >> (or >> should i say uncle Steve) all about you system and of course MS insists >> that >> it can share the data to whom ever it wishes without your consent. > > Interesting about the regular phone-home -- as someone commented, "how > can your copy go from being legitimate on the day you installed it, to > being a pirate copy?". Obviously it can't ... therefore equally > obviously the tool does not exist for the purpose of verifying if your > copy of windows is ligit or not. > > It used to phone home every day, now it seems to do so only once a week > or so. How did they change that setting? :-) > > It's also alledged to be the only Active X control that doesn't get > disabled when you ask to "disable all Active X controls" :-) > > -jim >
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