Rumour: M$WinME spies on us?

[dstevens1958]

Personally, I consider every version of Windows 9x a Trojan Horse program. As Palemoon said, go to http://****microsoft.com/ and u will see why I think that. It logs every friggin page you have ever visited along w/ lots of other stuff. And yes, M$ tries very hard to keep those files hidden. But M$ is not the only one invading our privacy, spyware, adware, etc, all log information that other people really should not know. Whatever the case, our privacy is been invaded and its not right, but as usual, its legal. But hey, this could be a whole new topic. (Which I'm sure has been covered here @ AO already.) I really wouldn't doubt that M$ is taking information from our computers they shouldn't know about, but I don't really worry about it that much. Just think of how many reports they get in a day. Think of how many people use their products. Millions. Not like they're gonna know you by your first name and become friends w/ your boss! (And for some people, that could be a very bad thing. lol)

[darkes]

Perhaps a trifle paranoid.
If a piece of MS software (or any other vendor come to that) crashes, then you usually have the option of reporting it, together with debugging info that was collected at the time.
Any decent debugger running under Windows/*nix/mainframe etc. will have captured any data it thinks might be relevant which will include bits of RAM & temporary files.
It's up to you whether or not you want to pass your debug report on - and normally you have the option of saving it first, and seeing if it contains any data that you consider sensitive.
If you are in a work environment and have encountered a new problem then yes, you will pass this info on. At home, probably no point, as it is almost certain someone else has already discovered the problem, and you can download a patch to fix it.

[Kage-Maru]

I have the unfortunality (is that a word?) of running Win ME on my system. All i know is that now when it crashes, I'm not sending an error report. I never trusted it anyway.

[S0lid Snake]

yeah i'm running ME too. MS must recieve millions of reports a day based on the amount of errors i get. I'd imagine most of it is for marketing, but i'm not sure.