lol. well most ppl who were dumb enough to do upgrade had to do the format just bcecause the upgrade made windows 10 slow and what not.
Firewall rules dumping Code: netsh advfirewall firewall show rule name=all verbose File AllFirewallRules.txt (340kB).
Very interesting Are there any executables linked to this "telemetry" business ? So we can just block those exe's with a firewall ?
If blocking the hosts files the debate has come up: 1. Router Firewall or Windows Firewall 2. Block outbound only or inbound as well.
Claiming that MS leaves a backdoor access on your system is tinfoil hat territory. There's plenty of things that they're actually doing that you should be upset about. Collecting all your meta-data with no option to disable, is one of them. pinging bing.com even when no apps are installed and web searches are disabled is another. There's no evidence to suggest that a backdoor exists. If you feel that I'm incorrect, feel free to offer your proof.
To give me a program that is called defender that upgrades virus and SPYWARE definitions only to have an OS that is the virus and spyware is really hard to stomach. From what I understand it logs what you are doing, keystrokes etc. Can you do online banking on this OS? Maybe M$ needs to do it to let you know when funds are running low in your chequing account so they can let you know you need to transfer money from savings into that account, or let you know what investments would be better than the ones you have? Or just ensure the funds you have are not being spent towards terrorism activities. For Christ sakes, this appears to beyond the point of socially acceptable. As far as not uninstall packages, f it as why would we show this OS any respect, I have and created an ISO that has it done already. Numerous attempts and this ltsb version still persists to pop up a blue lock screen telling me updates are ready, pizz off. I am getting to the point that this OS is a real intrusive hunk of garbage. As far as M$ I really hope this invasion of privacy gets out and this OS bombs, small device sales support this OS go down because of it and karma comes to visits them. Regards