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Does anyone know if there is a tool to safely remove telemetry executables from Win10? Is it possible to remove these?
There is a tool to safely remove all Windows 10 telemetry. It's called Linux.
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...through official means. I don't for a second doubt you can turn it off completely. But unofficial solutions come with tons of potential issues.
Could just block all communication with Microsoft by the OS. Or, move to non-Windows OSes like the retail giants already have. Kroger and Walmart run Suse Enterprise Linux (relevant Uptime Funk reference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww
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Yep, which is why you disable Windows Update too. The people who work on Windows these days should probably all be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.
Telling users to disable updates it's not a good recommendation.
Blindly installing Windows updates these days is very dangerous and should be avoided. Your best approach for avoiding malware is to use browsers like Firefox and Chrome. Critical task workflows should be in LTSB, iOS or ChromeOS.
Microsoft’s guidance is to have around four deployment rings each for Windows and Office, and only immediately patch 10-20% of your enterprise environment and defer to avoid impacts from the quality issues that are very common as Microsoft is supporting like a half dozen Windows 10s.
See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
to be fair every OS can and does do telemetry, say nothing about each software application calling back home in a similar way - such feedback helps speed up improvements however linux OS makes explicit notice of this and its simple to disable
Recent MS "improvements" indicate things should not have been sped up.
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I saw this tool being recommended in r/windows10. I have tried it, no issues so far, though haven't tested to see if it does disable telemetry. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
This tool is great. Only problem is you have to regularly re-run it because Windows Update will revert changes.
I am surprised that they using server names like "alpha.telemetry.microsft.com". when I see something like "microsft" in an E-mail or link I immediately suspect that somebody is trying to fake being from Microsoft. Or are these spelling errors in the article? Edit: these domain names are in the report too. Very strange. I would get very nervous if I saw "microsft" in a firewall log.
It does seem MS owns that domain, but to be actively using it --- especially for telemetry --- raises red flags for me too. Using misspellings of names is something malware often does.
Does anyone know if there is a tool to safely remove telemetry executables from Win10? Is it possible to remove these?
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> microsft.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename
Why would they use the short names in URLs? I thought they make sense only for file names.
However, I've been observing Microsoft since the Windows 2.0 era, and I can't completely discard the possibility that Microsoft actually would use 8.3 domain names. Using 8.3 names "for legacy compatibility" in unusual places is something they've done before.