(10-10-2019, 08:59 PM)Cr3aTor Wrote:

(10-10-2019, 07:04 PM)Drako Wrote: Then again, Microsoft could get whatever they wanted off of your system, whenever.

Well, it's their code after all. They can run whatever they want

(10-10-2019, 07:04 PM)Drako Wrote: Well that called privacy invasion. I didn't know that Windows Defender could do that. Then again, Microsoft could get whatever they wanted off of your system, whenever.

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Quote:The Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service enables features that support in-application and connected user experiences. Additionally, this service manages the event driven collection and transmission of diagnostic and usage information (used to improve the experience and quality of the Windows Platform) when the diagnostics and usage privacy option settings are enabled under Feedback and Diagnostics.

(10-11-2019, 04:00 AM)mothered Wrote:

(10-10-2019, 07:04 PM)Drako Wrote: Well that called privacy invasion. I didn't know that Windows Defender could do that. Then again, Microsoft could get whatever they wanted off of your system, whenever.

Microsoft uses "Telemetry", whereby data Is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry service that's actively running by default, as per the Image below.

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Service description:

Quote:The Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service enables features that support in-application and connected user experiences. Additionally, this service manages the event driven collection and transmission of diagnostic and usage information (used to improve the experience and quality of the Windows Platform) when the diagnostics and usage privacy option settings are enabled under Feedback and Diagnostics.

Information collected can Include Installed applications, drivers, CPU, HDD, Ram, system uptime, online searches, user-Interests etc. At the end of the day, we'll never know the nature of the data obtained.

(10-11-2019, 04:43 PM)Drako Wrote:

(10-11-2019, 04:00 AM)mothered Wrote:

(10-10-2019, 07:04 PM)Drako Wrote: Well that called privacy invasion. I didn't know that Windows Defender could do that. Then again, Microsoft could get whatever they wanted off of your system, whenever.

Microsoft uses "Telemetry", whereby data Is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry service that's actively running by default, as per the Image below.

Spoiler:

Service description:

Quote:The Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service enables features that support in-application and connected user experiences. Additionally, this service manages the event driven collection and transmission of diagnostic and usage information (used to improve the experience and quality of the Windows Platform) when the diagnostics and usage privacy option settings are enabled under Feedback and Diagnostics.

Information collected can Include Installed applications, drivers, CPU, HDD, Ram, system uptime, online searches, user-Interests etc. At the end of the day, we'll never know the nature of the data obtained.

I use SpybotAntiBeacon to disable it. The program actually works like a charm, despite its negative reviews.

(10-12-2019, 02:48 AM)mothered Wrote:

(10-11-2019, 04:43 PM)Drako Wrote:

(10-11-2019, 04:00 AM)mothered Wrote: Microsoft uses "Telemetry", whereby data Is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry service that's actively running by default, as per the Image below.

Spoiler:

Service description:

Information collected can Include Installed applications, drivers, CPU, HDD, Ram, system uptime, online searches, user-Interests etc. At the end of the day, we'll never know the nature of the data obtained.

I use SpybotAntiBeacon to disable it. The program actually works like a charm, despite its negative reviews.

This Is a very effective tool. I've also used It, and It does the job very well Indeed.

In terms of the negative reviews, I've read quite a few, of which they're complete nonsense.

(10-12-2019, 03:33 AM)Drako Wrote:

(10-12-2019, 02:48 AM)mothered Wrote:

(10-11-2019, 04:43 PM)Drako Wrote: I use SpybotAntiBeacon to disable it. The program actually works like a charm, despite its negative reviews.

This Is a very effective tool. I've also used It, and It does the job very well Indeed.

In terms of the negative reviews, I've read quite a few, of which they're complete nonsense.

Same here. I never see Telemetry popup in my Task Manager or any other junk I've disabled. I also see a bit of a performance boost from it too. Telemetry also will open out of nowhere and use 50% of my CPU for no reason.

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(10-10-2019, 09:26 PM)Strait McCool Wrote: Yeah last week it fucked me over.  It went in and quarantined the file that cracked my Adobe Acrobat... Spent hours figuring out why my PDFs kept crashing.  Finally realized it was that bs... Had it cracked for over a year but now it interferes lmao

(10-19-2019, 09:33 PM)Strait McCool Wrote: So uhm, I guess it updated and it went ahead and quarantined the file again after I had restored it.  Will this continuously happen?  Should I just disable it at this point?  It's getting annoying considering it's probably the program I use most on my PC.

(10-23-2019, 09:57 PM)DedSpace Wrote:

(10-19-2019, 09:33 PM)Strait McCool Wrote: So uhm, I guess it updated and it went ahead and quarantined the file again after I had restored it.  Will this continuously happen?  Should I just disable it at this point?  It's getting annoying considering it's probably the program I use most on my PC.

It will turn back on after a while if you disable it:



You should add it to the exceptions if you want it to be overlooked, there should be an option to do that when it gets flagged