| Win-XP silently downloads files [The Register] |
Apr. 17, 2002
Thomas Greene of The Register reports on surreptitious data collection by Microsoft Windows XP . . .
"A little over a week ago, while searching for a file on a Windows-XP machine, I was surprised to see the Search Assistant attempting to activate my Internet connection. It puzzled me because I wasn't searching the Internet, only my local drive . . . "
" . . . When you search the Internet using the Search Companion, the following information is collected regarding your use of the service: your IP address, the text of your Internet search query, grammatical information about the query, the list of tasks which the Search Companion Web service recommends, and any tasks you select from the recommendation list . . . "
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