MS tools to send images of machines' memory to MS

The Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) - whose motto is "Keeping DOE Secure" - this week issued a bulletin warning privacy- conscious users that the Internet-connected bug-reporting capabilities of Windows XP or Office in combination with recent versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser could disclose sensitive data to Microsoft. However, it described the vulnerability as a "medium/low" risk. The issue, CIAC wrote in its bulletin, is that the Windows Error Reporting feature takes a snapshot of data stored in memory at the time of an application failure - data that could include content from a document being edited at the time of a crash. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171293.html