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Yeah, I can understand the frustration, I don't like the spying, and I don't like the "updates" or better beta software thats stuffed down your throat.
In my case the spying is less an issue than it is for you since the thing only runs Steam and is a game machine but still, I am not happy with it.
 
^^^There are plenty of third party apps that will cut all telemetry at the press of a button, spybot anti beacon is one, great little program, been using it for 2 years now on W10, hell W10 has been running for 2 years no issues, so i can't fault it on its stability and everyday use.
 
Cyanide Muffin said:
It was a malware tool that used to be popular but I haven't used it in years and not sure if it's even still around.
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I think it's still available (in paid and free versions) but I haven't used it in ages. I do seem to remember versions of Win10 being snippy with it though.
 
You could use duckduckgo and see for yourself.. as far as I know it is still the same as always and they have a portable version as well...
 
Santaman said:
I'm looking into it, see if I can get $pyware 10 to behave... :shifty:
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Look for a program (well it's actually a series of Powershell scripts) called delobater. It removes a lot of the extra MS crud, turns off cortana and allows you to disable telemetry.
 
Cyanide Muffin said:
It was a malware tool that used to be popular but I haven't used it in years and not sure if it's even still around.
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I think the reason was that eventually they got paid off and began to let more things through and becoming less reliable and less popular as a result, or so that's what I've heard. I think MalwareBytes eventually supplanted it.
 
Owain Taggart said:
I think the reason was that eventually they got paid off and began to let more things through and becoming less reliable and less popular as a result, or so that's what I've heard. I think MalwareBytes eventually supplanted it.
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I tried that one, Malwarebytes is good but a little bloaty on something like a laptop, fine for a desktop but I went back to the one that was built into windows. for both machines in the end.

Hey I got my second sextortion email.

It came to an email address I don't use but I have had two of these and they were worded exactly the same.

https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guid...as-access-to-your-operating-system-email-scam


This is the email you get most of them are worded exactly the same. The one I got however had the senders carrier information and a disclaimer from the mobile carrier they were using .. How clever?
 
Yeah, I've had a few variations of those emails. When I first saw it, I thought it was quite clever, however the overall details never lined up. They mostly get sent to email addresses involved in data leaks. The first few I got, both of them began with the writer apologizing for English not being their primary language, and later ones evolved to include Bitcoin information to pay them to stop releasing all that info. Curiously, my first of those emails never included any of that, so it felt more like a half-baked threat. :lol:
 
Owain Taggart said:
Yeah, I've had a few variations of those emails. When I first saw it, I thought it was quite clever, however the overall details never lined up. They mostly get sent to email addresses involved in data leaks. The first few I got, both of them began with the writer apologizing for English not being their primary language, and later ones evolved to include Bitcoin information to pay them to stop releasing all that info. Curiously, my first of those emails never included any of that, so it felt more like a half-baked threat. :lol:
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They are to be ignored.

I love how my sender included all their carrier information which will be forwarded to their carrier along with all the headers which they didn't even try to spoof.
 
Happy 60th Birthday COBOL (cow of a bloody 'orrible language :)

and it's still going strong in sectors such as banking and insurance.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-turns-60-why-it-will-outlive-us-all/

I did Cobol at uni back in the early 90s on VAX/VMS system (edit, compile, debug, compile) and it wasn't really that bad of a language to work with (which along with ADA, x86 assembler, PASCAL and C I remember sweet FA about :)

Heard of one student who wrote a compiler in COBOL which must have been an excersize in extreme masochism.

a guy who was studying at the same time as me had been a COBOL program for many years and had gone back to uni to get a comp sci degree thinking that he would wind up looking for a new job. Of course this was before Y2K really became an issue. He's probably a retired COBOL programmer by now.
 
Y2K was an interesting time, IBM and other biggies were asking retired programmers to come back and fix the code, no one else was able to do it, guess a lot of retired COBOL people were asked to show up.:biggrin:
 
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