On Thursday 08 January 2004 9:50 pm, Derek Neighbors wrote:

> I will gladly let any law enforcement agency look at my computer.  I
> have nothing to hide.  However, I don't feel that any vendor has the
> right to access my computer without notifying me and certainly I don't
> think they should have reason to be installing software without
> notifying me.
>
> To be fair, to date Microsoft has not (to my knowledge) used or abused
> either one of these items, but certainly they put them in their EULA for
> a reason.

The only way they can access your computer is if you have no firewall,  if so,  
then you might consider looking into security.  You do give them permission 
to access your computer "if" you are connected to their update services.  

Out of curiosity,  what makes you think that just because Microsoft has a EULA 
that would abuse it,  and how do you know that up2date or yast,  or what ever 
other services you may connect to,  don't already do this,  but just tell you 
about it?

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Richard L. Proctor
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