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Re: Another Web Site

• Posted by irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Aug 26, 2000
• 449 views

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Kat wrote:
>
> Well, actually, your web browser ( IE ) does this too, for all applications in
> the registry. It does
> this allegedly so the web page server can put together a page that you can
> use. Yea, right.
> When i set the User-Agent field in the http headers to "Gertie (Win3.68)" and
> surfed over to
> some MS sites, the firewall logged four hits from MS the next day. I have set
> the Accept field to
> text/html (this is normally where your browser tells the site what all the
> apps on your puter are,
> such as Flash, WinZip, MSPaint, etc.), and the User-Agent in another browser
> to Mozilla/4.0
> (compatible; mIRC5.51) (normally this specifies (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows
> 95; DigExt),
> etc).
>
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>
> Wow, does all that sound paranoid or what??
>

Wow. Thanks, Kat.
If it were anyone but MS, I wouldn't be too concerned. Knowing their
history and MO, however, this should be enough to worry anybody.

A thought: deleted files would be noticed quickly. Inserting bugs into
the competition's software would be less easily detected. Do you suppose
they haven't thougt of that?
..
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
Regards,
Irv