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Thumbs down Is m$ spying on you?

Just read thisarticle although it doesn't affect me, it may affect those with xp while playing DVD movies.

Hope it's of use to someone...

Guess you won't be playing 'Debbie Does Dallas' just yet then guys

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Have you seen this . I will never use XP on any of my home computers .
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24611.html

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Coming from Microsoft, this doesn't really surprise me.

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Coming from Microsoft, this doesn't really surprise me.


Ditto.

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Thumbs down hmmmmmm

I never trusted M$ anyways, they get more corrupt and foolish. I run RH, Debian, Freebsd. M$ is ruining itself really quick

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I never could get my X Server up and running with FreeBSD or Slackware, so am sticking to Red Hat for now.

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Just read thisarticle although it doesn't affect me, it may affect those with xp while playing DVD movies.

Hope it's of use to someone...

Guess you won't be playing 'Debbie Does Dallas' just yet then guys




All the more reason to use "RealPlayer".

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All the more reason to use "RealPlayer".


You're kidding, right? Real Software is the *original* privacy snoop. M$ probably got the idea from them.

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Simple solution. Get a firewall that pervents access both ways. www.tinysoftware.com
its free. I just deny all windows components access when they ask. Hell, my win explorer tried to access the net. lol

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