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How To Keep Microsoft's Nose Out of Your Personal Data In Windows 10
MojoKid writes: Amid the privacy concerns and arguably invasive nature of Microsoft's Windows 10 regarding user information, it's no surprise that details on how to minimize leaks as much as possible are often requested by users who have recently made the jump to the new operating system. If you are using Windows 10, or plan to upgrade soon, it's worth bearing in mind a number of privacy-related options that are available, even during the installation/upgrade. If you are already running the OS and forgot to turn them off during installation (or didn't even see them), they can be accessed via the Settings menu on the start menu, and then selecting Privacy from the pop-up menu. Among these menus are a plethora of options regarding what data can be gathered about you. It's worth noting, however, that changing any of these options may disable various OS related services, namely Cortana, as Microsoft's digital assistant has it tendrils buried deep.
"How To Keep Microsoft's Nose Out of Your Personal Data In Windows 10"
How about a new HOSTS file? APK?
don't install the damm thing!
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
Just install Linux.
You're welcome.
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Yes, I can see the options during the setup. Years of updating Java have trained me to uncheck everything.
Anyway that is old news.
We want to know more about the things you can not set in the options.
Ways to prevent forced updates?
Remove hidden services?
If the default is "on" , what if a bug in the code resets the setting or ignores the setting. Are there any indicators that this information is going out? Can there be any indicators? What is the amount of encrypted traffic going out from the system to microsoft? Any way to look at what is being sent at any point in time? Does it ever log what was sent? Can it?
It actually is that big a deal. It is just that the MS PR department managed to convince some clueless people that what they do is harmless. It is not.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
it's funny that considering how "deep" Cortana is, it gets utterly confused and useless when I say "Cortana start microsoft word".
I'm just waiting for the coffee table book now.
Purportedly M$ is also issuing updates to Win7/8 that would mirror Win10 behavior. You want out? Install Linux (or FreeBSD)
I've been with windows for close to two decades.
But I'm probably going to either use an older windows box or just bite the bullet and go to linux for my "real" machine. I might use windows for a gaming machine.
I've used openoffice then libre office for years now and no longer even occasionally dip back into Word.
I've disliked the tighter microsoft email/social account integration for a while now.
I really dislike what I'm hearing about the new o/s. I stopped using facebook because of similar actions.
it's like being fabulously wealthy isn't enough. If windows 10 goes forward as is, I probably won't go with it.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Just a day or two ago /. does the responsible thing and posts an article that actually discusses what is going on and shows that it's really not that big a deal. The very next day they're bad to spreading fud. Make up your mind, and stop trying to have it both ways.
So basically install the next piece of global spyware shit that Windows is, then spend a few days reading how to disable all the spyware shit. Then hope that it was all of it because you can never know. It is closed source for a reason.
Here have this true post that got modded -1 for literally being factual. It also was beneath an "account holder" that got modded 0. Facts.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7860731&cid=50336091
And have this one, same true links, also modded -1.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7814945&cid=50277265
Everybody should begin their posts with those links, see if you can even see Slashdot at all without moving the sliders to see -1 and 0 modded posts. ,,|,,
And if you even say haha derp Windows rules... you are looking at Insightful +5. Facebook and Twitter buttons... and lies, go figure.
Was when I was looking at the app store, but it said I had to log in to my microsoft account to use any of the apps. OK, logged in with my hotmail account which has a long complex password, which was copy/pasted with my password manager. I turn my PC off for the night, next day it won't take my usual password because it's now not a local machine logon, but is my microsoft logon, which I can't fill in because I can't open my password manager. Luckily I backup the keepass data to a USB flashdrive, so I fire up my other real OS which is linux so I can write down the frigging password to get the windows pile of shit logged back in. Screw MS... wiping the drive and installing linux.
Just a day or two ago /. does the responsible thing and posts an article that actually discusses what is going on and shows that it's really not that big a deal. The very next day they're bad to spreading fud. Make up your mind, and stop trying to have it both ways.
So basically install the next piece of global spyware shit that Windows is, then spend a few days reading how to disable all the spyware shit. Then hope that it was all of it because you can never know. It is closed source for a reason.
Here have this true post that got modded -1 for literally being factual. It also was beneath an "account holder" that got modded 0. Facts.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7860731&cid=50336091
And have this one, same true links, also modded -1. http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Everybody should begin their posts with those links, see if you can even see Slashdot at all without moving the sliders to see -1 and 0 modded posts. ,,|,,
And if you even say haha derp Windows rules... you are looking at Insightful +5. Facebook and Twitter buttons... and lies, go figure.
Couple of days of reading?, like you could just click the damn "Privacy options" link at install time and uncheck the 4 or 5 options. I get it, you're used to Linux, where you need 743 command line commands to do anything, but, c'mon
To disable forced updates, go into Services and set Windows Update to Disabled. Then put an icon for Services on the task bar
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
If you don't think having integrated spyware, adverts and forced updates in your OS is "not that big a deal", then you are a fucking moron.
The thing that pisses me off about Windows 10 is the apparent lack of control the user has with their own machine. Exhibit A: http://www.tenforums.com/attac...
Check out the real-time protection option. "You can turn it off temporarily, but if it's off for a while, we'll turn it back on automatically." What bullshit is that? First, it doesn't tell you what it constitutes as "a while". A day? A week? A month? Second, the fact that it believes that power users are extinct and might have an edge-case for permanently disabling it is ridiculous. It's based off of Microsoft Security Essentials, and I disabled the real-time protection when installed on Win 7 on my netbook because it was just too much for the poor little Atom processor to deal with. If I needed to scan something, I'd do it on-demand. Here, I have no permanent solution because Windows 10 thinks it knows better than my situation.
Windows 10 is peppered with many other areas which make me feel less in control than I used to. I know that I can't have full control when running a proprietary system, but it's all about degrees, and Win 10 feels far less catered for power users than Win 7.
Well, don't worry. This is pretty much guaranteed to happen with each new release of Windows. Also, the article isn't as hysterical as the headline makes it out to be. I think it's a good thing for people to be made away of all the privacy controls and their implications.
There are some serious and legitimate privacy concerns, but nearly every single privacy invasive feature can be turned off, and that's really important. What's the downside? There are some features that rely on the ability to talk to Microsoft servers and read various personal data, like e-mail, calendars, and contacts. A personal digital assistant like Cortana needs to know a LOT about you to be effective. Another one is cloud synchronization - obviously, if you want your various PCs and devices to be synchronized automatically, personal data will need to be stored in Microsoft servers so they can be transferred between your machines. Whether you consider those "privacy invading" or "neat new features" (or both) largely depends on your perspective.
We've heard reports about a few services still communicating with MS servers. This isn't exactly a huge concern to me, as I'd expect a few things like activation and updates to still talk to MS. There may be a few other things that slip through the cracks (like start menu tiles still refreshing even though they're all removed), but it doesn't have the feel of anything malicious to me. Others may choose to believe the worst, of course.
One of the big issues for me is the forced updates, because that has serious implications regarding stability (I've personally had to roll back a seriously bugged Nvidia driver until it was fixed many months later). We've already seen problems with this, so it's not really a theoretical concern. I've heard Microsoft may be backing down a bit, acknowledging that people need to be able to block known bad updates / drivers, and have released a standalone tool that can do this. My bet is that this will later be integrated into Windows myself, but at least it's possible now.
I'm not a big believer in conspiracy theories about MS scanning your drive and sending your personal data away. What's the motivation? Plenty of people will gladly opt in (or more accurately, choose not to opt-out) just to get the convenience of automatic cloud backups, synchronization, and an intelligent digital assistant. They're not going to care about the minority of people that are privacy-concerned enough to shut off all those features. They stand to lose FAR more in lawsuits, lost consumer confidence, and political probes than whatever they might gain from it.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
From all the articles I've read about Windows 10, it looks like there are quite a number of settings that must be made to stop all that "phone home" behavior.
The number of changes is large enough so that I don't trust myself to do them all by clicking various GUI screens. I'll inevitably miss one or get it wrong -- which is unacceptable when privacy and security are at stake.
Does anyone know of any software yet that fixes Windows 10's abuses using a single-step installer?
Couple of days of reading?, like you could just click the damn "Privacy options" link at install time and uncheck the 4 or 5 options.
Two major problems with that:
1) There aren't options to disable all of the spyware in Windows 10.
2) Even when you "disable" the options that you are graciously allowed to by Microsoft on your own PC, it still sends that data anyway.
If you knew how to use a packet analyser, you could see that for yourself instead of posting comments that reveal what a clueless idiot you are.
I thought they were Geniuses(tm)?
It is a big deal. However some people have been brainwashed into not caring about privacy. "Oh, it's just for providing a better customer experience, I'm all for that!", or "I love advertising, especially when it's targeted!", or "I like things in the clouds, especially the bunny shaped ones", or "when has Microsoft ever been evil?"
Couple days of reading articles about Windows 10 that is, not to read the checkboxes. Only someone who trusts Microsoft would trust those checkboxes to do what they say.
Can you trust that they are being turned off? Microsoft does not have a good track record when it comes to telling the truth. Even after turning off those options it seems that Windows 10 is still transmitting a lot of data that appears to be telemetry. Even if this is purely benign data, it is not their network and it is not free so they should not transmit anything without the user's explicit permission.
I think the problem is that MS isn't being completely clear as to what it is they're collecting or why they're collecting it. Take those seven or eight updates to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 that added forced telemetry collection. No one really knows what it is those things are collecting - MS's own update really doesn't say much other than "It's information needed to ease the transition between Windows 7 or 8.1 and Windows 10" and "It's for customer experience improvements". On top of this, all of the telemetry updates were marked as "Important" in Windows Update, meaning that they'll be automatically installed on most update configurations.
If MS really had some reason to do this, they should have said exactly what it is they were collecting and why from the get-go, and also had a clear opt-out provision. Failing to do this is what's sparking a lot of paranoia - I've heard everything from "MS's telemetry service is logging everything you type and sending it to MS to improve autocorrect functionality" to "MS is actively recording input from attached webcams and microphones and sending it to MS servers".
I think if MS were to put out a well-thought out announcement telling people why it is they're doing this, a lot of the paranoia would go away.
Equivalently: "How may I [consort with] a brothel of multiply infected hookers who have graduate biomed degrees, practical research in communicable infection and a fervent INTENT to infect their customers?"
As WOPR said in "Wargames", 30+ years ago, "Interesting game. The only way to win is not to play."
Don't DOWNGRADE to WIndows 10. Windows 7 is superior to Windows 10. If you installed Windows 10 remember you have 30 days to change your mind and UPGRADE back to Windows 7.
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Couple days of reading articles about Windows 10 that is, not to read the checkboxes. Only someone who trusts Microsoft would trust those checkboxes to do what they say.
So is like you can't win, if there are no options, it's because you don't have options, if you have options, then they don't work on purpose, Why would you even consider using Windows in the first place?
base points for a working ap and 4X for hardware and add 2 to the multiplier if you post detailed plans and a firmware image.
Within 3 to 6 months some tool will come out from someone, similar to classic shell but for privacy. It'll disable any and everything properly and "fix" any odd crap straight up.
Let other people get messy with it.
I mean you could just not use it but for some of us, that isn't an option.
I'm happy to wait for a cool tool, probably be published like most useful free tools on Ninite.com as well, it'll be a piece of cake.
Let others beta test.
Because it used to be an operating system and had not yet turned into a smartphone wannabe.
... http://www.linuxmint.com/
It's worth noting, however, that changing any of these options may disable various OS related services, namely Cortana, as Microsoft's digital assistant has it tendrils buried deep.
And nothing of value was lost.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
the worlds smallest open source violin.
Just a day or two ago /. does the responsible thing and posts an article that actually discusses what is going on and shows that it's really not that big a deal. The very next day they're bad to spreading fud. Make up your mind, and stop trying to have it both ways.
But it's worse than that; this is an article telling noob users how to open Settings and untick a bunch of options. With screenshots. Any regular slashdotter should feel quite insulted having this article posted here. Seriously, somebody thinks we need to see some screenshots of how the Settings pages work.
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
Yes but with vmware viewer installed, I can run a really fast Linux desktop inside of win10.
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
Just because you kill a feature in 'settings' doesnt mean that they have to oblige. You can't see the code so you cannot be sure if changing the settings actually changes anything
Uhh yeah..about that? those are like the button at a stoplight, makes ya feel good but don't do shit...didn't ya get the memo? Unless you set up a hardware router with IP based blocking and block a shitload of IP addresses then everything you do is getting sent to the mothership whether you like it or not.
You didn't think you'd get anything "free" from MSFT, did you? Hell its the most expensive version of Windows EVAR as not only do you trade a legit key from a non spyware version of Windows but you ALSO give them your data for sale, so you get to double pay for that "free" OS...hell of a scam,huh?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
They're going to market you to advertisers and sell their customer lists, if you ever get an app (don't do this!) they'll let the app makers know what similar apps you have purchased. Their goal is to out-google Google, and out-apple Apple. They know they're behind in the customer monetization game and are trying to leapfrog past the others. Windows is in a decline as the casual users are moving to phones and tablets so Microsoft is desperate here.
Just look at Windows 8, the whole thing from top to bottom that they marketed was purely about getting eyeballs to their useless store and getting users to sign up with Microsoft ID accounts. When beta users figured out how to bypass the Metro stuff and go straight to the usable desktop, the very next patch disabled this ability because their goal was to get everyone to that start screen where the monetization starts. Sure they fired the VP in charge of Windows after this, but are you really sure all the decision makers who pushed for that idea are really reformed?
Thanks Microsoft! Windows 10 gives all the users that were thinking of trying Linux an obvious incentive to make the switch!
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
If you knew how to use a packet analyser, you could see that for yourself
All of that likely to be encrypted, though
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
The only sure way to prevent win10 from installing, monitoring, reporting, narcing, and doing things on your privately owned hardware, with your privately paid for internet connection, is to Never install it. Ever. If you doubt me try rolling back. Go on. Try it. I'll wait.
I get it, you're used to Linux, where you need 743 command line commands to do anything
Usually switching from mouse/GUI to a terminal allows you to do exactly precisely what you want in a few commands (and if you need 743 commands, make a shell script, which becomes one command). And you also usually get a level of feedback (errors...) you wouldn't have with the Gui.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
My wife has a small photography business, and Photoshop and Lightroom are huge aspects of her photo editing workflow. She's invested untold hours building up skills in them, and that proficiency really pays off in terms of the quality and speed of her editing work.
Right now she edits on our Windows 7 box. I'm almost dead set against us using Windows 10 because of this privacy crap (and now I apparently have to try undoing the telemetry those assholes snuck into Windows 7.)
I feel caught between a rock and a hard place, because switching to a Mac would be an unwelcome expense for us. Also an business risk, since I can cheaply repair or upgrade a PC, but I have not expectation of being able to do that on a Mac. So if a Mac craps out near one of her deadlines, I'm not confident that I can get it (or a replacement) online as fast as we really want.
I'm just amazed at how hard Microsoft is working to drive us away. They've gone from being a reasonable partner for our kind of business (Windows 7), to being one of our largest sources of medium- and long-term risk. They're now making our decision to use Windows for her business, into a strategic mistake.
I really hope Adobe comes up with some decent solution to people in our shoes. If they have a Linux port of Creative Suite in their back pocket, this would be a dandy time to start selling it.
3) Those are the obvious options. There are many more burried all over the place, under control panel and settings, every one of which is invasive-by-default. It's quite the quest to find them all, and even when you do find them all you only run into 1) anyway - you've reduced the spying a bit, but not eliminated it.
You can't even run calculator or the image viewer without Microsoft knowing. Really. Every time you do, it establishes a connection to licensing.md.mp.microsoft.com. I think it does that for all the new-style-interface apps, perhaps checking for revocation or collecting usage statistics.
Almost all. At least MS is being sensible here and making sure only they can spy on it, not half the internet via traffic interception. The only unencrypted thing I've found are updates for the live tiles, which are plain old HTTP grabbing mostly XML files.
Although Win8 really tried hard.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just 'cause you're paranoid doesn't mean that they ain't out to get you.
But seriously. If I had to sell a product that was potentially harmful, the first thing I'd do as soon as stories about the harm it can do start to surface is to launch a flood of even more outlandish claims (like smart meters burning your house or killing your pets) to make the original, correct, claims look like yet another batch of crazy loonies having a field day.
It's basically misinformation 101.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Is not to use they turds. Do not use Windows and Office, come on. Even a 5 year old can understand it.
it might be your computer but you just loan the OS when buying a Microsoft Operating system. Check your EULA
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
> , but nearly every single privacy invasive feature can be turned off
I was going to call you a liar, until I saw the qualifier "nearly". In fact, we don't know all the things that can't be turned off. We just know about a lot of them. Note also that the methods to turn them off often only appear to work (ex: turning telemetry off in the registry only works in Enterprise, in Pro or Home or anything that a mere non-corporation can legally own, the setting is ignored).
Anyway, the reason I'm responding is because you talk about a "conspiracy theory". Don't use those words. That's not what this is.
This is OBSERVED data leaving your box, for reasons that don't help YOU in any way, and can ONLY be used to hurt you, with NO supported way to disable them. Microsoft is willing to ignore networking standards and the best interests of their customers to do this.
It's not a "conspiracy", because it's a known entity- Microsoft.
It's not a "theory", because it's not an "unproven thing" or a "framework for discussion". It's observed. You can observe it yourself, should you so desire.
The leaking is tremendous. Simply watching the network traffic on Windows 10 reveals vastly more about the user than you would expect, and that's before even caring about what's IN the goddamned network traffic.
But seriously. If I had to sell a product that was potentially harmful, the first thing I'd do as soon as stories about the harm it can do start to surface is to launch a flood of even more outlandish claims (like smart meters burning your house or killing your pets) to make the original, correct, claims look like yet another batch of crazy loonies having a field day.
It's basically misinformation 101.
You just described the history of government involvement in UFOs.
It's interesting that there's been such outrage over Windows 10's snooping, especially considering that many wildly popular proprietary programs have already been doing this for years. For instance, in 2007 Slashdot reported that Skype reads your /etc/passwd file and Firefox profile; who knows how it uses this data or where it gets sent.
The real problem here isn't Windows 10 in particular, it's running proprietary software in general. With proprietary software it's almost impossible for the average user, and usually very difficult even for experts, to discover and mitigate against privacy violations and security holes. Free software puts up no artificial barriers to security and privacy audits; any competent programmer can check the code herself, and any concerned layperson can delegate a trusted programmer to do so (or read existing reports from programmers or journalists they trust).
Use a local account instead of a Microsoft account.
That alone will disable various 'features' such as Cortana.
As for the other options to disable, they can be found here:
https://fix10.isleaked.com/
Finally, if you wish to reject Microsoft's cloud and mobile ambitions completely, run Powershell as administrator and Remove -AppxPackage every preinstalled Metro crap.
https://thomas.vanhoutte.be/miniblog/delete-windows-10-apps/
Name one. please.
tip:
libc handles dns resolution in linux.
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion. -- Spazmania (174582)
The problem here is the company behind the OS and their Orwellian privacy ideas.
You can block entire IP ranges, disable services and smoulder half the registry. If they are serious about collecting this information, expect CDN servers to start taking up slack in random cities, small server providers way outside the firing line. They will find a way to get past your firewall restrictions, until you're left with nothing but an isolated machine.
You can disable and remove all you want from the core system, if you're using Windows Updates, they've won. The regular user won't have the know how to reverse engineer every update, or won't keep in the loop on critical security updates to make sure he at least turns Windows Update on once. Not everyone will be running a Enterprise version, apart from actual corporate and pirate users.
They have the ability to modify anything they want via WU. How long will your sanity last battling against the Microsoft gestalt?
This needs to be solved in a court, in a way that can make an impact on a multinational company. If not, then you're just living on a prayer, hoping that you've figured out every packet that's leaving the machine.
So basically no downside to disabling these options then!
Twinstiq, game news
If M$ is not clear about what there are doing; This is clearly because they want to make money with your data; with your behavior; Selling ads, selling where you are, selling what you are doing... Now you are still buying the OS, and you are the 'product' too. Fascinating!!!
Are there any sufficient FLOSS firewalls that can block all of the reporting back to Microsoft for Windows 7, 8, and 10, without breaking the automatic updates?
You can configure Zonealarm to alert you when programs attempt to send traffic out. When Windows 10 tries to phone home, disallow it from doing so. Problem solved.
I'm solving this by installing Scientific Linux 7.1. Why fight the OS and the OS vendor? That doesn't make any sense to me...
Opera, Proxomitron-Grypen,GPG 0x0A1C6EE3
Microsoft sure is getting a lot of hate for what Google has been doing for years.
X
"into a smartphone wannabe."
Agreed, even Super SKYPE Cortana Smartphone.
Cheers.
End of Line.
Here are a few ways to accomplish it. They make use of the HOSTS file and registry settings among other techniques. (Disclosure: I'm a retired Microsoft Senior Technical Writer, i.e., I know enough not to trust them). http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/...
Remove these patches. Disable the "recommended"patches in Windows update. Run another update, and if any of these return, set them to ignore.
KB 3035583 (primary nagware for Windows 10)
KB 2952664
KB 2976978
KB 2990214 (Windows 10 upgrade)
KB 3021917 (Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program)
KB 3022345
KB 3035583
KB 3044374 (Windows 10 upgrade)
KB 3068708 (update for CEIP and telemetry)
KB 3075249 (telemetry)
KB 3080149 (update for CEIP and telemetry)
Well, here the UFOs were most likely just some secret projects like U2 and the like. Which were Unidentified Flying Objects, so...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I shutter to think at what will be mined from the Windows 10 mobile update. Is there any hope of this being less open to Microsoft since Data rates apply and the FCC is involved?
How To Keep Microsoft's Nose Out of Your Personal Data In Windows 10?
The only way I know for preventing MS from accessing your personal data for their own purpose is to not install MS software.
Uhh yeah..about that? those are like the button at a stoplight, makes ya feel good but don't do shit...didn't ya get the memo? Unless you set up a hardware router with IP based blocking and block a shitload of IP addresses then everything you do is getting sent to the mothership whether you like it or not.
You didn't think you'd get anything "free" from MSFT, did you? Hell its the most expensive version of Windows EVAR as not only do you trade a legit key from a non spyware version of Windows but you ALSO give them your data for sale, so you get to double pay for that "free" OS...hell of a scam,huh?
Out of all the people who responded to my comment here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7911631&cid=50399165
I'll respond here. Really, this shit should be put on the front page of Slashdot maybe some old school readers would actually be interested.
That link hairyfeet added above is the last piece of the puzzle. The Czech guy checked here http://localghost.org/posts/a-traffic-analysis-of-windows-10
In that article is this:
Information transmitted
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
Ok so you look for whois nsatc.net
NSATC.NET - Domain Informationnew
Domain NSATC.NET [ Site Info Traceroute RBL/DNSBL lookup ]
Registrar MARKMONITOR INC. MarkMonitor, Inc.
Registrar URL http://www.markmonitor.com
Whois server whois.markmonitor.com
Created 27-Sep-2001
Updated 01-Dec-2014
Expires 27-Sep-2015
Time Left 30 days 0 hours 4 minutes
Status clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited clientUpdateProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited) clientTransferProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited) clientDeleteProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited)
DNS servers A.NS.NSATC.NET 199.93.44.45
B.NS.NSATC.NET 8.12.212.49
C.NS.NSATC.NET 64.152.2.44
D.NS.NSATC.NET 205.128.93.51
E.NS.NSATC.NET 212.187.162.134
G.NS.NSATC.NET 205.128.88.25
L.NS.NSATC.NET 8.255.48.47
g.ns.nsatc.net 205.128.88.25
e.ns.nsatc.net 212.187.162.134
d.ns.nsatc.net 205.128.93.51
a.ns.nsatc.net 199.93.44.45
b.ns.nsatc.net 8.12.212.49
l.ns.nsatc.net 8.255.48.47
c.ns.nsatc.net 64.152.2.44
Now who is MarkMonitor, Inc?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkMonitor
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/everything-you-need-know-about-piracy-battling-copyright-alert-system
https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-trackers-ban-windows-10-over-privacy-concerns-150822/
Ok so what happened? Microsoft took consumers money for decades of virus-laden shitware. Botnets, anti-virus suites, ransomware, all that shit.... you bought it hook line and sinker. They profited. Now they used the money consumers gave them to hire career lawyers. World gov's said hey, what the fuck? Anti-trust, etc.. then they started fuckin.
You will want to uninstall your Windows 10 "The Spyware of all Spywares Edition" because the only anti-virus that will work is Linux or other *nix.
If you installed Windows 10 because of lies about being free, or DX12, your homework is:
https://www.google.com/#q=roll+back+windows+10
You have 30 days after you took the spyware upgrade to roll back or it self-deletes the backup files.
You may or may not decide to keep any Windows at all... bu
I'm with Windows since 3.11, had all versions. I'm also professionally MCSE/MCITP.. blablabla.. so really invested in the company... I was totally fine with Millennium. Vista was slow, I had good hardware at the moment, so it was alright for me. Put effort to like Metro on 8.1, sucks... (sigh) but I had to keep up with progress... Did upgrade to 10 few days back. But this ends here.... The last callback\telemetry MS will have from my home PC is that I'm downloading Ubuntu 14.04 and Universal USB installer.
I'm sorry, but going off half cocked screaming doom and destruction without any real evidence to back up your claims just makes you look like a tinfoil hat wearing idiot. I'm so sick of the tools here who seem to think evidence is only necessary when it contradicts their opinion. You people make us all look bad.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
There is a user over on voat.co that has made a VBS+Batch Script that blocks the suspected windows 7/8 updates that add the tracking and telemetry "features". A breakdown of the what updates are blocked are listed and since is VBS and a Batch file, you can check the internals of the tool (aptly named "Aegis") yourself. https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/459263/new
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