Well i wrote to microsoft.
I hope whoever has started this hoax is happy, but i doubt its anyone on
this list but who knows.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "PSS Support" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 8:04 AM
Subject: RE:{RTCProd#618-312}whats this aboutFw: Microsoft's New License
Agreement allows Them To controll Your Computer
> Hello,
> Thank you for contacting Microsoft.
> I understand you are concerned regarding the e-mail you received. I
realize your concern regarding this issue and look forward to providing you
with assistance. The e-mail message you received is considered a hoax.
>
> For more information on this hoax and many others, please go to the
following Web sites:
>
> Computer Incident Advisory Capability (official United States Government
organization):
> http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
>
> Other e-mail hoax Web sites:
> http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blhoax.htm
> http://diamond-back.com/emailhoaxes.html
> http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/default.htm
> http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/hoax_new.shtml
> http://www.uga.edu/~ucns/helpdesk/information/howto/other/hoax-scam.html
>
> I hope the information I have provided is helpful. If you have any
additional questions please feel free to contact us again. Have a great day.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
> Microsoft Online Customer Representative.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott ([log in to unmask])
> Date: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:12 AM
> To: [log in to unmask] ([log in to unmask])
> Cc: [log in to unmask] ([log in to unmask])
> Subject: whats this aboutFw: Microsoft's New License Agreement
allows Them To controll Your Computer
>
>
> mailto: [log in to unmask]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelly Pierce" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 4:07 PM
> Subject: Microsoft's New License Agreement allows Them To controll Your
> Computer
>
>
> > The Register
> >
> > 30 June 2002 Updated: 09:50 GMT
> >
> > Biting the hand that feeds IT
> >
> >
> > MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box
> >
> > By Thomas C Greene in Washington
> >
> > Posted: 30/06/2002 at 05:56 GMT
> >
> > If you caught our recent coverage of the Windows Media Player trio of
> > security holes you may have followed a link to the TechNet download site
> > for a patch, or you might have activated Windows Update. If you did the
> > former (though, oddly, not if you did the latter), you would have been
> > confronted with an End User License Agreement (EULA) stating, most
> > ominously, that:
> >
> > "You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and
software
> > protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may
> > provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be
> > automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related
> > updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and
> > use other software on your computer. If we provide such a security
> > update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site
> > explaining the update."
> >
> > "Reasonable efforts to post notices" somewhere on the Web. I think it's
> > clear from the wording that MS has absolutely no intention of bringing
> > this behavior to our attention.
> >
> > Instead, Microsoft has just assumed the right to attack your computer
and
> > surreptitiously install code of its choosing. You will not be warned;
you
> > will not be offered an opportunity examine the download or refuse it. MS
> > will simply connect remotely and install what it will, or install it
> > secretly when you contact them.
> >
> > This means MS will have administrator privileges on your personal
> > computer. What they feed you may be infected with viruses; it may break
> > your applications, corrupt data files, destroy weeks or months or even
> > years of work, but you'll have no recourse if it does. By downloading
> > this WMP critical security patch, which you must do to operate WMP
> > safely, you'll agree to give Billg deed and title to your personal
> > property and to leave Microsoft immune from legal retaliation if they
> > damage your machine.
> >
> > The pusillanimity of wrapping what amounts to a digital land-grant into
a
> > needed, critical security patch is matched only by the arrogance of
> > assuming that Windows is now such a fundamental linchpin of a human life
> > worth living that no retaliation in the courts or at the retail counters
> > is conceivable. (And that's not to mention 'informal' retaliation by
> > outraged IP warriors, which we fully expect to see.)
> >
> > We've heard the Billg rubbish about Trustworthy Computing until we're
> > sick to death of the trivial incantation. Ironically, Microsoft has just
> > taken steps to make the Internet immensely more untrustworthy than it
> > already is. When we know that arbitrary code will be secretely installed
> > on our connected boxes by software vendors who are not accountable for
> > the damage they may do, any issue of trust is obliterated.
> >
> > May I suggest my (personally) favorite solution to that problem?
> >
> > Linux.
> >
> > http://www.suse.com/index_us.html
> >
> >
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