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Re: PC Mag Tax Software Review

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From: Victor Roberts
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:39
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:28:59 -0800, Oliver Costich
<olc-caNOSPAM@cox.net> wrote:

>Explain to me exactly how they do that? I use a firewall and haven't
>seen any unnecessary traffic from MS. If you mean that downloading a
>program can put things on your computer, then any software on any OS
>can do the same thing. The activation sends no info about your system
>to MS.

Doesn't the EULA for the latest version of MS Media Player give MS
permission to download patches to your OS without further notice?

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Vic Roberts
http://www.RobertsResearchInc.com
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