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WindowsLies / BlockWindows

Stop Windows 10 Nagging and Spying. Works with Win7-10
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Security Essentials, Planned Tasks, KB3065987, ... #13

Open Yazoo87 opened 9 years ago

Yazoo87 commented 9 years ago

Any comments on the reasoning behind this? Removing Security Essentials updates is just stupid, any why the hell does it disable so many planned tasks that have nothing to do with the telemetry/spying crap?!

You're effectively nuking application compatibility support, most Mediacenter convenience functionality and the WinSAT task None of that makes any sense, other than causing problems elsewhere that have nothing to do with the spying crap.

Plus, why are you uninstalling KB3065987? That's an update that prevents domain-joined users on non-enterprise windows editions from "upgrading" to Win10 without the network admins consent via rulesets..!?!

WindowsLies commented 9 years ago

This has been discussed elsewhere. Needs to be blocked.

rubo77 commented 9 years ago

@WindowsLies where has this been discussed? can you provide a link here please?

@Yazoo87 Maybe it makes sense to uninstall Security Essentials, if you have your own virus scanner?

rubo77 commented 9 years ago

There should be a definite reason behind each line in the blacklist, that explains why to disable this with a reference link (maybe start a WiKi for this)

rmenessec commented 8 years ago

I have no idea if the Registry entries are valid for Windows 8.1 or 10, but since MSE actually has a pretty good detection rate and reasonable performance - and because it can't be removed or not installed after Windows 7 - it seems to make more sense to disable SpyNet and leave MSE alone:

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/06/02/disabling-microsoft-spynet-in-windows7/

If the Registry entries don't work for later Windows releases, the article does also list the submission points for SpyNet in etc/hosts format.