On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:06:31 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:56:05 -0400 > Lanman disseminated the following: > > > Creating a firewall which blocks or alerts the user to outgoing traffic > > would effectively block spyware which Microsoft has obviously placed > > inside their operating systems themselves for their own purposes. > > > > Also, if Microsoft built a firewall that actually did block outgoing > > traffic, how would they receive user data? Their own product would be > > blocking the data transmissions that they seem to desperately need.
Uh... spyware in their OS's? It's worse than that. I had ZoneAlarm running on a laptop that sometimes connected to the Internet via dialup -- ZA was a pretty decent inexpesive solution that let me disable all inbound and enable outbound POP/HTTP for minimal connectivity. Imagine my surprise when I hooked up an external mouse (Intellimouse) and installed the drivers for it. It wasn't 10 seconds before I was getting ZA popups asking me if the mouse drivers could access the Internet. For pete's sake... why the @$#%$ does a mouse driver need network access. The same is true for the Microsoft keyboard, Visio and a few other MS products. Brenda Bell Henniker (the only one on earth) New Hampshire (the state with 5 seasons: black fly, tourist, foliage, ski and mud)
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