"kirsten pedersen" skrev d. 22-07-02 17:30 dette indlæg :
> Jeg faldt over nedenstående da jeg abonnerer på
Rootsweb/Bedford i
> England.
> Jeg ved ikke selv noget som helst om Family Tree Maker, men tænkte at
nogen
> måske var interesseret.
> venlig hilsen kirsten p
>
> 'For those of you using Family Tree Maker, you might be interested in
what I
> found on my hard drive today. It seems that the new version of FTM 9.0
that
> I installed last week has created a file named "aqueduct.txt" in the
root
> directory of my C: drive. This file contains the following message:
>
> This message is an Aqueduct Software Instrumentation Data File.
> It has been automatically generated by a software application
> that has been instrumented by an independent software vendor or
> internal development group using Aqueduct Software's
> Instrumentation library. The data that is being gathered will
> be used by the software vendor/group to determine usage patterns
> and statistics. For more information contact the software
> vendor/group or
>
> Aqueduct Software, Inc.
> <
http://www.aqueduct.com>
> 800 Menlo Avenue, Suite 215
> Menlo Park, CA 94025
> (650) 463-8700
>
> Following this message is a complete log of all my FTM activity plus
> information about my system. Things like login name, processor, type
of
> printer, etc. It also has entries that seem to relate to the operating
> environments of MS Office, Netscape, and Eudora, such as company
names,
> email info, and SMTP hosts.
>
> I'm a software developer and I'm very fussy about security,
particularly on
> my own equipment. As I recall, I don't remember seeing anything in the
> installation process that warned me about this - and I'm always quite
> meticulous in looking out for this sort of insidious intrusion.
>
> I don't access the Net from FTM so it's unlikely that any of my
critical
> information has leaked out, but I thought some of you might be
interested
> just the same.
>
> Needless to say, I'll be asking a few questions of Genealogy.com and
its
> owners, the A&E Television Network. No doubt they'll try to convince
me that
> it's all for my benefit.
>
> Rod
>
> Milton, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
>
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> n kirsten
>
>
Hej Kirsten,
Dette er en gammel "nyhed", og den har været forklaret i flere
forskellige nyhedsgrupper - med jævne mellemrum.
Filen blev brugt under Beta testning af programmet.
Filen sendes IKKE af sig selv, men brugeren skal SELV sende den på en
E-mail.
Der skrives IKKE til filen i det solgte program
Fejlen ER rettet i version 9.0 dateret 31. Oktober 2001.
Aqueduct Software eksisterer IKKE mere.
Det må mest betegnes som en hoax (falsk trussel).
Ole P. Bielefeldt
www.familytreemaker.dk
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