Re: Getting info from users comp?
| From: | Ernest E Vogelsinger | Date: | Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:21:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Getting info from users comp? | ||
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At 09:17 22.11.2002, @ Edwin said:
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>Hello,
>
>"Ernest E Vogelsinger" <ernest@vogelsinger.at> wrote:
>
>> So you're talking about a Trojan, do you?
>
>No, not really. I was talking about "legitimate" programs run by the users
>themselves.
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Of course it is possible for any application running locally to fetch any
data about your hardware - e.g. M$ does it with their semi-automatic bug
reporting feature (in Win XP). However you'd need hardware and OS specific
applications to accomplish this.
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