Jim: You really don't have a good memory, do you? We dealt with this topic just 3 weeks ago. Check for the thread 'BIOS Spying' around June 1. At that time I said: --------------- Looking at this, there appears to be smoke without fire. It looks like they don't gather much in the way of data unless you download and install software via phoenixnet. At worst, it's going to reset your homepage once, and you'll pop onto it the first time you start your browser. It's not even clear that this happens without asking. What we really have here is Phoenix abusing it's power over BIOS content to pre-install an app without asking you. Barring further evidence of nefarious activity, we've all got much worse stuff to worry about. The operative quote for this list may be: "The question is not 'Are you paranoid?'. Its: 'Are you paranoid enough?'" (Cadigan). That doesn't mean, however, that it's impossible to be to be *too* paranoid. Peter Trei --------------- To further expliain, this is no worse than Netscape or IE starting with their default home pages. Also, if you to install a non-Microsoft OS, the canned app in the BIOS can do absolutely nothing.
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Peter Trei