Jaqui Greenlees

get yourself your handy hex editor, like the one that comes with MS Visual Basic.

fire it up and open the file open dialog.

browse to the windows\system32 folder

select the LegitCheckControl.DLL in there.

open it up.

reading the partial english in the right column, look for the LegitCheckWWd

read from there to where it displays SupressWarning.

That one section of the file logs in as administrator, if you are not, turns off warnings, collects data from your computer, sends that data to Microsoft, then turns warnings back on and logs off as administrator.

I could put all 4832 html pages of the file up and let you browse through them to find it, but it would be meaningless, since I could have inserted that into what I post. find it in the file on Your LEGIT version of Windows with MS Office installed.

Then decide, is Microsoft committing the same criminal act they were penalized for by the US Courts with the Windows 98 Update issue of sending information to themselves when you ran windows update in windows 98?

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