[geeks] Re: Re: My new laptop came with spyware

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote:

> That sounds like a very good plan. I just didn't expect this to happen
> from IBM.

I suspect that they *might* (I don't know this for a fact) use that
software to take control of your system during service calls.  Scary.

> My laptop has none of my $data on the WinXP filesystem except for some
> .iso files that I mount in VMWare (my laptop has no CDROM). I always put
> anything of value into VMWare virtual machines so I can back them up
> easily and/or transfer them to a virtualiser on another machine when
> required.

A wise precaution.

Peace...  Sridhar