See http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tune-08.html and http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-005.shtml Major Variola wrote:

I am currently working as a security consultant at a major kiretsu that makes printers/fax/copiers/scanners. Important eg in a hospital where HIPAA requires that info not be leaked. Eg the xerox-tech swaps a drive and gets to look at the data on it. Or your accountant is using a wireless laptop to print your bank numbers.

A program I was working on crashed, and M$'s XP asked me if it could tell M$ about the "bug".

I looked at the info the "anonymous" message would contain. It included the data I was testing with.

Nice.

I sent a note to my boss.

Anyone know if this can be shut off?

[Apologies if this is an old issue. As an aside, the 3Ghz work machine with half a Gig of RAM runs no faster than the 333 Mhz 128Meg Win95 PC this is composed on. When quantum computing chips come out, if they run M$ OS, they won't run any faster, but the "assistants" will be more annoying.]

------- "This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability. " -- Scott Culp, Microsoft Security Response Center, discussing the hole allowing ILOVEU to propogate, 5/5/00.