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[FYI] Win-XP Search Assistant silently downloads files
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- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:29:24 +0200
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24815.html
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Win-XP Search Assistant silently downloads files
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 11/04/2002 at 20:47 GMT
Just 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. I was busy with other
things at the time, but I made a mental note to look into it soon,
which I promptly forgot to do.
This morning, Reg reader Jody Melbourne rattled my cage, fresh from
having made the same discovery. He'd noticed that the Assistant was
establishing a connection with a machine at Microsoft.
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