Can you post the link(s) to the Conspiracy site(s) you got that Info?

Some of what you said is possible and even true,
but some of it a little far fetched...

Rick Glazier

From: "Computer9f"
>Beginning with Vista (on "vista-ready" hardware), Microsoft (and other "cooperating" vendors) can locate your computer, turn your 
>PC on whenever they wish and do whatever they wish with it, updates, upgrades, "inspect" everything you have on it, downgrades 
>(disabling software features), deleting files, etc. and then turn it off again (or hibernate it, if that was how it was before). 
>The only way you can prevent it is to physically unplug the computer.

>I don't know whether  Microsoft would run defrag or not - that could be a configuration setting for off-hours defragging that 
>activates when the PC is turned on.  If this is the case, you can change this setting to prevent the defrag, but if you are using a 
>"vista-ready" machine, it will still be subject to being remotely powered-on, "inspected" and altered as long as it is plugged in.

AnnaSummers 

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