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Windows 95 Espionage ( ?? )

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Mullins)
Tue Jun 6 20:37:59 1995

Date:         Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:20:42 -0700
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From: George Mullins <george@wicked.neato.org>
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Bernd Lehle writes:
 > Can anybody confirm this ? A little late for April Fool's Day... :-)

A number of folks have confirmed this by "snooping" the modem
connection while running the "registration wizard".  It does NOT seem
to interrogate every system on your network, but it does send a
complete directory listing of the system it is run on.

Prodigy was sued for this and lost!

        george

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