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Win-XP Search Assistant silently downloads files

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24815.html

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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