Win 95
Mansour Esmaili (mansour@osiris.cs.uow.edu.au)
Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:33:19 +1000
> Newsgroups: comp.risks
> From: cnorloff@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
> Date: Wed, 17 May 95 13:44:40 EDT
>
> Microsoft officials confirm that beta versions of Windows 95 include a
> small viral routine called Registration Wizard. It interrogates every
> system on a network gathering intelligence on what software is being run
> on which machine. It then creates a complete listing of both Microsoft's
> and competitors' products by machine, which it reports to Microsoft when
> customers sign up for Microsoft's Network Services, due for launch later
> this year.
>
> "In Short" column, page 88, _Information Week_ magazine, May 22, 1995
>
> The implications of this action, and the attitude of Microsoft to plan
> such action, beggars the imagination.
>
> Chris Norloff cnorloff@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
>
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Mansour Esmaili
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