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From: joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Prodigy quirk may give Prodigy Corp a view of your pc -WSJ
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Date: 1 May 91 12:28:37 GMT
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Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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According to todays Wall Street Journal 5/1/91, page b1, the Prodigy
s/w that resides on a MS/DOS PC "offers Prodigy's headquarters a peek
into users' own private computer files." Apparently it is an accident,
caused by a s/w fluke and probably due to some side-effects of MS DOS
itself. The files STAGE.DAT and CACHE.DAT may inadvertantly also contain
snippets of a customers own non-prodigy files. According to one of their
technical staffers, "Its an unfortunate side effect of the way the operating
system works." He says the side effect is part of the design of the DOS
operating system.

Interesting reading- at a minimum, lets send lots of email to Prodigy,
alerting them to our concern. 

joec@morgan.com