See http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tune-08.html and http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-005.shtml
Major Variola wrote: >I am currently working as a security consultant at a major kiretsu >that makes printers/fax/copiers/scanners. Important eg in >a hospital where HIPAA requires that info not be leaked. >Eg the xerox-tech swaps a drive and gets to look >at the data on it. Or your accountant is using a wireless laptop >to print your bank numbers. > >A program I was working on crashed, and M$'s XP asked me if it >could tell M$ about the "bug". > >I looked at the info the "anonymous" message would contain. It >included the data I was testing with. > >Nice. > >I sent a note to my boss. > >Anyone know if this can be shut off? > >[Apologies if this is an old issue. As an aside, the 3Ghz work machine >with half a Gig of RAM runs no faster than the 333 Mhz 128Meg Win95 >PC this is composed on. When quantum computing chips come out, >if they run M$ OS, they won't run any faster, but the "assistants" will >be more annoying.] > >------- >"This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability. " >-- Scott Culp, Microsoft Security Response >Center, discussing the hole allowing ILOVEU to >propogate, 5/5/00. >