LOL. Microsoft has disclosed it. The problem is that most people who complain about it don't read the EULA! Come on guys. Quit your bitching if you aren't going to bother to read what is right in front of your eyes. Heck, Microsoft discloses the fact that it sends back information to them right on their KB too. Look at article ID 890830. How else do you think any of the virus companies out there get the numbers they quote? As long as you are not using pirated copies of their operating systems there should be no worries. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Shonk To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:34 PM Subject: [THIN] Re: Interesting read: Microsoft Malware report from Malicious Software removal tool No. That's besides the point. The point is this is all being done without proper disclosure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:11 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Interesting read: Microsoft Malware report from Malicious Software removal tool Oh and like every other antivirus tool from other vendors on the planet doesn't??? Are you that naive? Joe Shonk l.com> wrote: Interesting that Microsoft has exact numbers. Yet another Microsoft product that phones home. Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:17 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Interesting read: Microsoft Malware report from Malicious Software removal tool Microsoft has released an interesting report on some results from their Malicious Software Removal tool. There are some pretty shocking results of the amount of virii this thing has cleaned. For example 4.4 million removals of Win32/Rbot, another interesting statistic..the tool cleaned one computer that had over 251 variants of malware. I can only imagine what that person was doing on the web. : ) Article about it here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1975563,00.asp See the full report from Microsoft here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/e/3de2470b-ab9a-4a7f-b760-ee2421df294a/WindowsRemovalToolWP.doc