Post by Qetesh on Oct 9, 2015 17:06:59 GMT
I would not normally do this but since this community lives online, I thought I should share this very troubling information with you. I have some extremely computer literate friends, they are all programmers and networking experts on one of my forums. They brought this to light to me. Feel free to ignore, but I did find both of these updates sitting in my queue.
If you read this article.
www.infoworld.com/article/298...d-3080149.html
According to my two friends, one own his own computer networking company, the other is a senior code writer in his company, this is how they described what this means:
This article is down playing how Microsoft is now adding spyware deeply embedded spying functions into windows. It had initially only been on Windows 10, but they now have have added patches to window 7 and 8 to do the same. These updates will allow windows to search your files, all files, personal, hidden ...all of them for any content it feels is detrimental to itself and send this information back to microsoft. That is right, it can search in any file and it can deem what it feels is bad and copy it and send back to micorsoft.
These updates came out a few months ago, they did not tell you, they just lumped them in with your "important updates". As horrible as this sounds, it is legal and they are allowed to do this. You agreed to it, when you installed windows on your computer. If you don't want microsoft having access to this you can easily uninstall these updates. But beware they will try to install again, they can also change their names, so you will have to stop your auto updates and allow auto downloads only and then check your queue before allowing any to update. Some you do still need. If you look at your update page, it will allow you to put a check on which files you want to install, then look on right side of page and it shows that checked update. Under a very confusing general description it says "more details". If you click on this, it will take you to a microsoft page that has a more clear title of update. These two for windows 7 are the ones that you don't want but beware, they can change and add new updates at any time.
support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3075249
support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080149
In general look out for anything with the words, "customer experience" and "CEIP" in it. This means you give access to them of your stuff. They say it is just for possible piracy in some articles but others say they can forward this information to any governmental agency they want.
Windows 8, has them too, I think those are listed in the article as well. Now what about the poor souls with 10?
