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Topgun
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:01 am 
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Anyone else think the message from Microsoft encouraging you to adjust your privacy settings prior to upgrading, contains a hidden agenda?
IMHO I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw 'em!

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Sergio
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Still running WinXP ... no issues, no hidden agenda ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:31 am 
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Windows has always had a big brother basis, almost a form of legalised hacking, so they want you to configure your machine so they have maximum access to it. I still insist the worst and most destructive virus I have ever downloaded was from MS and was called windows genuine advantage.
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Windows 10 was the worst one ever for me. Couldn't get to grips with it all. So had everything changed back to Windows 7.
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Mouse wrote:
Windows has always had a big brother basis, almost a form of legalised hacking, so they want you to configure your machine so they have maximum access to it. I still insist the worst and most destructive virus I have ever downloaded was from MS and was called windows genuine advantage.

WGA.exe module could be renamed, deleted, etc
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Big Nev
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Sergio wrote:
Still running WinXP ... no issues, no hidden agenda ;)


So was the NHS in UK...hence easy to hack!!

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Big Nev wrote:
Sergio wrote:
Still running WinXP ... no issues, no hidden agenda ;)


So was the NHS in UK...hence easy to hack!!

Only for those who have no brain, opening all emails and shameless clicking on URLs and attachments!
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and no back up

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So, can anyone suggest an expediant way forward to get the upgrade & then maintain privacy from big brother MS/USA Gov't?

MS must have recognised a lot of people locking-off their 'services' & spent time devising a new way to spy on us, so it is probably very difficult to avoid/circumvent IMHO, but I'm not a computer whiz.

Need a techie on this one I think - is there anybody there?

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I am SURE there is Topgun, but they want you to pay for their services!!
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I am SURE there is Topgun, but they want you to pay for their services!!


Life is like a box of chocolates Wavy....

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The reason I am grumpy about ms is I had paid full price for an original copy of xp, when I ran wga it shut down non ms add ons and things which did not have an ms electronic signature, also it reconfigured many things, it was like firstime run a new system, and then it threatened to shut down my system as Windows was not original, since then some years ago I have run Linux 99% of the time. Any computer parts which carry a "Microsoft approved " label i have not purchased either.
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