Did some updates for my sister's PC on Sunday. Gave her the latest version of Mozilla, made sure she had the latest anti-virus updates for her AVG software, etc.
And then I updated her Windows. She has XP. Hers is the only XP system I've encountered so far, so I don't have much experience with it. I don't know if the following behavior is typical.
After selecting the Windows automatic updates and clicking OK, the system began to do whatever it is that XP does. There didn't seem to be too much activity, so I checked to see what was happening. Turns out, the system was uploading about three times as much data as it was downloading! Presumably the data stream was going to Microsoft. What were they grabbing from my sister's PC?
I knew that XP had some privacy problems. Obviously, I'm going to have to research this further.
Posted by jt at August 18, 2003 06:08 PM