From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:35:20 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:59:14 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote:
>
>>MSN search came up blank. ("* We couldn't find any results
>>containing stats.update.microsoft.com.")
>
>  Google is your friend (why did you bother with MSN - the M stands for
>Microsoft?)
>
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=%22stats.update.microsoft.co
m%22&btnG=Search
>
>  ... And yes, Microsoft needs to know your username and DNS name for their
>statistics.


I figured that MSN search would know about Microsoft's information
harvesting activites on my PC.

 /m

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