1/30/02 11:47:59 AM, Curtis Rey
I could be wrong, this might just be some guy talking about something he's just doing. I for one am paranoid enough to not trust M$. How knows? The NTFS bootloader may very well log the OS version installed and then send it home to Redmond - lord knows M$-XP phones home alot.
Just MHO, Curtis
That's why the first thing you do with a windows box is stuff something like Zone Alarm on, even if
you're already running behind a firewall. ZA will tell you when some application or service tries to
access the internet and you can block it. I get alerts for things like Microsoft Works trying to
access the internet even when I haven't loaded anything into it.
The thought that there are countless millions of people running systems like XP, directly connected
to the internet and without a proper firewall would be truly horrifying...if I wasn't running Linux.
BTW, How open is this list? It's just that I've started receiving regular spam from it. I know this
because I always use suse-ml as a prefix to my domain so that I can track where spam originated.
Not only that, but someone even sent me the MyParty virus to my list address as well! I didn't
expect to be picking up Winblows viruses from mailing to a Linux List, maybe there are M$ agents
snooping around after all!
Tim Harrell