I spy with my little Microsoft eye !

[Atomic Mitten]

I wonder Gryphon what else the memory dump tells Microsoft.Especially if someone's dumb enough to click on report to Microsoft button, after a system or program error.

I always click on no.Their too damn nosy anyway. ;)

[gryphon]

The *.DMP file itself doesn't get send. Just if it exsits. But MS can read it if they have the whole file. Updating a SP or DirectX send info like that [ existing of the file ] to MS. Ironically around the time it says checking system information, no info is being send at this time.

Running a packet sniffer can easely trase and identify those files. As the *.dmp holds the content of your memory. And memory is in an non encryted state [ as encrypted info is decrypted when you are using it ] decompiling [ or whatever ] the memory.dmp file can easy get any otherwise encrypted information that was open at the time the file was made.

Although you also just could have IM'ed me this instead of making a topic about it. .. .. :)

If you want to know more things like that try searching for the famous NSA_KEY in Windows. It's quit old by now. Although the articles still are available and can provide a nice read an insight into Microsofts policy on security issues. And you might stumble onto other more recent things with your search .. ;)