Do you leak information about yourself on executables - comp. by Visual Studio

[questionmaster]

Hi everyone,

does anyone know weather you leak information about yourself in a executable compiled by Visual Studio from C/C++. I know that turning off generating debug info is a good starting point because otherwise the path of the debug info file is contained in the exe.
Does Visual Studio include any fingerprint of my computer to indentify who compiled which executable or is there any other information which could reveal the identity of the person who compiled the file.

Thanks in advance.

[hppd]

Yes there is. Somebody told me about a friend of him that got arrested more than once because of this. I think your HWID or something get's in there and maaybe some connection back to the email you registered wwith? I don't know for sshure but I wouldn't take the risk either. Your best bet is to get a portable compiler and go to an internet cafe or something

[Dongs.c]

Yes there is. Somebody told me about a friend of him that got arrested more than once because of this. I think your HWID or something get's in there and maaybe some connection back to the email you registered wwith? I don't know for sshure but I wouldn't take the risk either. Your best bet is to get a portable compiler and go to an internet cafe or something

It puts your email address in there, Do you know how many Spear Phising attacks or even just email harvesting attacks that would cause.

AFAIK VS doesn't leave anything that can be connected back to you over the internet.

E.g. It doesn't say, Yes hi John from 10.0.0.0 with the MAC address blah made this

[king09x]

There is probably some sort of metadata stored within the file, probably even more so if the executable was decompiled and if other sorts of resource files (images, text docs, music) are compressed into the exe.

I'd just try to decompile and extract the data yourself and see what you can find. Google brings up quite a collection of metadata extractors for different file types.