Originally Posted by
Apoc
Sigh... they do this every once in a while to gather average performance specs on users PCs. It does absolutely nothing to scan your PC other than some basic stuff they use for internal statistics. This has been answered many times before, and has been closed... many times before. This time is no exception.
THEY DO NOT GATHER ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION! You're a retard if you think it's some privacy issue that their automatically polling users. (This works a lot better than putting up some poll, or survey on the site, where 90% of users lie about their specs.)