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Windows malware

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[–] efstajas 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pretty funny how it says "Unauthorized access" right below screenshots of features clearly being enabled.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But in the end of the day, there is no intended way to turn off Telemetry fully.

[–] sebinspace 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could airgap it, but then you’ve airgapped it..

[–] Fedizen 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

or run windows in a VM

[–] sebinspace 2 points 1 month ago

It knows it’s in a VM

[–] thirteene 4 points 1 month ago

Do you understand windows update is changing settings to defaults right? They are overriding user configured settings on this toggle. That is malware

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I recall once setting up Windows 7 or 10, turned off everything in oobe, and every choice was ignored. Everything was enabled after finishing