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Sembra che l'ultimo control panel di ATi contengano uno spyware, che provi a connettersi ad un sito della microsoft.
Tale news è stata rilevata da alcuni utenti del forum di Rage3d.
Molto probabilmente si tratta di una bufala, in ogni caso, riporto comunque a riguardo alcuni post presi dal link sopra.

Ok, here are the facts:

- Catalyst 3.0a (6.14.01.6255) + CPanel 6.14.10.4012
- Every D3D application you start will try to open a connection to crl.microsoft.com
- OGL Aplications won't
- DX8, 8.1, 9 doesn't matter
- WMP6, 8, 9 doesn't matter
- AntiSpy used or not doesn't matter
- XP SP1 or not doesn't matter
- FW: Tiny, Outpost, Sygate, ... doesn't matter ;P
added - XP Antispy used + additional tweaking to be sure nothing connects home
added - happened after installing CPanel, stoped after uninstalling it

It hasnt tried to access the net when I launched any programs, but it did when I opend the ATI control panel which was unusual.

I see absolutely no sign of the alleged report using Cat 3.0's (6255) + DX 9.0. Using both tcpdump and ntop on my gateway server, there is no internet activity while launching the control panel, advanced display properties, making changes... nor when I launched and ran 3DMark or launched and ran Morrowind. It sounds more like someone has XP's auto-update notification, time synchronization enabled on the system clock, or a virus running off an activeX object (i.e. these can ride on IE background processes which can hit MS incorrectly as some are hacked versions of the windows update process)