On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Ken Norris wrote:
It was shown a few years ago that M$ sends out packets all over the internet which can invade any machine running Windows and harvest and report lists of visited websites and the like back to M$ (and enough reasons to believe other companies do it too), which they say is a legitimate endeavor for gathering marketing demographics.
Completely an urban legend, probably a conflation of various spyware issues and Windows Update which does check the version of various windows components (otherwise how is it to know what upgrades to offer...).
Moreover the internet doesn't work that way...you can't "send out packets to invade any machine".
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