Hey Hey,

I know that everyone is putting little faith in these notes... and that Tiger Shark has sniffed and found nothing... but I'm going to have to disagree.... -- Check out

http://sa.windows.com/privacy/
Using Microsoft Windows XP Search Companion, you can search for all types of objects, from pictures, music, and documents, to printers, computers, and people. You can search your own computer, other computers (if you are connected to a network or workgroup), and the Internet. You can also choose to search with the help of an animated screen character.

No information is ever collected by Search Companion when you search your local system, LAN, or intranet for any reason. Enough Packets Were sent... even if no information was collected...I'm still not sure when the privacy policy was sent out. Check out the screenshot

When you search the Internet using the Search Companion, the following information is collected regarding your use of the service: the text of your Internet search query, grammatical information about the query, the list of tasks which the Search Companion Web service recommends, and any tasks you select from the recommendation list. Search Companion does not record your choice of Internet search engine, and does not collect or request any personal or demographic information. Information collected by the Search Companion can not be used to identify you individually, and is never used in conjunction with other data sources that may contain personal data. All information is retained for twelve months, and discarded in the thirteenth month following collection.

Where did I find that you might ask?? When I ran a sniff and searched... I'm wondering if when TS did it, he forgot to reenable the default Windows Services... I turned Alerter, ALGS, BITS, Error Reporting and a few others back on before running my sniffs.

Anyways Check out the screen shot.. If anyone wants the capture to see the details they can PM me.

Peace,
HT