"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrnevbbrv.s0j.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in
> article
> <45f479cf$0$8927$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, Steve H. wrote:
>
>>Someone on another BBS I'm on declared that Microsoft might secretly
>>whitelist certain spyware companies. This is total BS, right ? I cannot
>>imagine Microsoft doing this and the resulting scandal.
>
> This is a troll, right? You've had your head up-and-locked and haven't
> bothered to read the End User License Agreement that _you_ agreed to when
> you got windoze, and haven't bothered to know what the words "Digital
> Rights Management" mean. That's funny.
>
> In case you're not trolling, point your news reader to the news groups
> "alt.privacy" and "alt.spyware". Or just hit google and find a copy of
> the microsoft EULA - or pick up any computer magazine and find the
> discussion about the spyware - it's not called that, because you agreed
> that microsoft has the right to install it and can do anything they want
> with the information they get from your computer.
>
> Old guy

The question was serious. Thanks.