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Microsoft Patches Win98 GUID Privacy Bug
by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Dave Murphy, DGL President & ITrain founder Responding to repeated customer requests and significant negative press, Microsoft Corp. released late last night two software patches that reportedly remove the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) from Windows 98 systems and remove the GUID from Office 97 documents and spreadsheets. Microsoft has publicly agreed to:

  1. Modify the Windows 98 Registration Wizard feature in a subsequent service release of Windows 98 to not send the hardware ID, unless the user checks the option to send hardware information to Microsoft.

  2. Provide a software tool for download that users can use to delete hardware registration information from the Windows registry.

  3. Purge any hardware ID information that may have been inadvertently gathered without the customer having chosen to provide Microsoft with this information. We are confident today that the hardware information is not being stored in our marketing databases, and we are investigating whether it is stored in any database at all within Microsoft.

The two software patches are in response to the second agreement.

Complete details are posted to Microsoft's website.

Articles In This Series
Microsoft Documents Secretly Track Author
Microsoft To Help Users Remove GUID From Document
Win98 Security Bug More Serious Than Previously Thought
Microsoft Patches Win98 GUID Privacy Bug

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