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Really Hidden Files: Proven Myth under Windows 2000.

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passive wind:
The Microsoft Genuine Advantage ActiveX controls sneak down the .dat files on your system to see what warez sites you have been to if the checks failed and hopefully bust pirates. However this information is also obtained halfway by the United States government to find terrorist links/URI.

Kintaro:
Errr... right.

Aloone_Jonez:
Too bad I use Firefox so they'd never catch anyway but what you've just said is complete bullshit, please read this thread from the beginning.

EDIT:
Why are ActiveX controlls a good this when they allow viruses to be installed and porn sites to rip people off by making their modems dial premium rate numbers?

Annorax:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Too bad I use Firefox so they'd never catch anyway but what you've just said is complete bullshit, please read this thread from the beginning.

EDIT:
Why are ActiveX controlls a good this when they allow viruses to be installed and porn sites to rip people off by making their modems dial premium rate numbers?
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Microsoft thinks they're good because 90% of Windoze users don't know they exist, let alone how to disable them.

Kintaro:
Erm, IE7 warns you about every ActiveX control you encounter by default, and so does IE6 with SP2 when I think about it. And on Windows 2003 Internet Explorer owns Firefox security wise.

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