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Vista has a built-in firewall.

Not that I understand why he's worried. Even if his ISP knew he's using a particular version of Windows, then what?

It's not like they actually care. As long as they're making money (i.e. you pay them), they couldn't care less.

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They can still sniff your outbound UA string. And they can also get a good idea by what sites you visit or programs you run. Visit MSFN and Google for "Vista" a lot? Run certain applications or games that use known ports and are OS-unique?

Yeah. They can figure it out if they want to do so.

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Also your web browser reports your OS as well, and they could easily keep that information and use it for metrics. If you've ever run any stat programs on a webserver, you can see it can see just about every OS.

i was just about to type this.

i can track the browsers that IP address are using.

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