Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Punish your Microsoft developer

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Vern Green wrote:

> On a semi-related note, that feature you see, the Send Report feature, 
> well it really doesn't send anything at all. We checked it out one day.
>
> We had a machine where that came up, the machine was not connected to 
> the network at all, we went ahead and clicked "Send Report' anyway and 
> got a message that the report was successfully sent! WHAT? How did it 
> get sent, brainwaves?
>
> So we decided to see what happened when it was connected to the network, 
> we hooked up Ethereal and monitored the traffic coming from the machine, 
> we then caused a crash and clicked send report. No packets were created 
> and sent even though we got the message the report was sent.
>
> Now it is possible that it is sent at a later time, perhaps when Windows 
> update is run or something like that. Who knows for sure? Probably not 
> even Microsoft.


That is very cool.  I will bet that you are right in guessing that it is 
sent at update time.  Microsoft should want the data -- most of it is 
about how they are causing their competitor's programs to crash!

Mike

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