Re: Fighting Spyware

[Graywolf]

It wasn't a secret, MS bragged about it. They claimed it would help them serve 
you better (with potatoes and gravy, I guess). But it continues, in XP there are 
about a hundred "services" running as default. Many of them can be turned off if 
you know what you are doing, if you don't turning off the wrong ones can lock up 
your computer.

graywolf
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Steve Sharpe wrote:
At 3:27 PM -0800 1/15/05, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Please be kind enough to elaborate.  I'm just a simple man from a small,
backwater fishing village and don't know of such things.

Back in the late '90s, I think, it was discovered that Internet Explorer 
was secretly recording the web sites that its users visited and then 
sending that information to Microsoft.

Don't have exact references but I definitely remember reading about it 
perhaps five or six years ago.

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