If it is indeed a hoax, I apologize for the confusion. the register is a
UK publication that has broken a number of computer-related stories which
were indeed true. this included the discovery in the Microsoft Front
page license agreement that prohibits users from creating web pages with
the product to disparage the product or Microsoft.
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: Fw: RE:{RTCProd#618-312}whats this aboutFw: Microsoft's New
License Agreement allows Them To controll Your Computer
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.
mailto: [log in to unmask]
----- 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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