O&O ShutUp10++ – Free anti-spy tool for Windows 10, 11

Post by U8dcN7vx » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 12:45 AM UTC

cma wrote: post #169

gigel82 wrote: post #137

There are a lot of open source scripts and tools on GitHub for accomplishing the same goal (in various state of being out-of-date, abandoned, etc.); I started collecting the ones that appear somewhat active here: https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy I plan on going through them to weed out duplicates and duds. You shouldn't trust any of those blindly, but definitely read through the code; I'm par…

I noticed a media disk drive grinding away the other day, nothing made sense to be causing it. Turns out Chrome now scans all your drives and sends executables back to Google by default or something (software_reporter_tool.exe), even if you are a software developer in competition with them (practically all software developers since Google are essentially all-encompassing at this point). Is it intuitive to anyone that…

Post by cma » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 12:56 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #174

cma wrote: post #169

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I noticed a media disk drive grinding away the other day, nothing made sense to be causing it. Turns out Chrome now scans all your drives and sends executables back to Google by default or something (software_reporter_tool.exe), even if you are a software developer in competition with them (practically all software developers since Google are essentially all-encompassing at this point). Is it intuitive to anyone that…

If you're sure that's actually Google's application doing it, and can show it happening with clear evidence, then I recommend reporting it to the media and everyone else you can think of. That sort of behaviour is essentially espionage and I'm sure it would be enough to get Chrome banned from many places which were previously happy to use it.

Post by userbinator » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 1:16 AM UTC

cma wrote: post #184

userbinator wrote: post #174

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If you're sure that's actually Google's application doing it, and can show it happening with clear evidence, then I recommend reporting it to the media and everyone else you can think of. That sort of behaviour is essentially espionage and I'm sure it would be enough to get Chrome banned from many places which were previously happy to use it.

I found this on it: https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#unwant... > In addition, if you have opted in to automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google, Chrome will report information about unwanted software, including relevant file metadata and system settings linked to the unwanted software found on your computer. I don't think I ever opted in to this but they may have have…

Post by tipoftheiceberg » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 1:55 AM UTC

Post by mycall » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:53 AM UTC

qwertox wrote: post #156

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I have to use Windows once in a while (circumstances). Best way to forget about the existence of spyware (aka telemetry) that I found is to not connect a Windows box directly to internet. I configured my router to give it a gateway and DNS IPs which don't exist in the network. Eat that, Microsoft. And I can still connect to internet by manually setting a SOCKSv5a proxy to the router in Firefox and other software that…

Wow! Thank you for that tip. Block the machine's internet access with a firewall but connect the browsers over a SOCKS proxy. I mean, I do have a couple of containers up and running on a Raspberry Pi offering nothing but intranet SSH services while the containers are connected via OpenVPN to differnt VPN servers, so that I can use different browsers which connect via SOCKS each to one container in order to have one b…