David, I have Windows 10 but have taken precautions. 1) I do not use Cortana or OneDrive. 2) You can manually turn off most telemetry, but you have to check after O/S updates as Microsoft will try to turn them back on. 3) There is a great freeware tool to take care of more than you can do in Windows settings, and keep an eye out for O/S update setting changes: Spybot Anti-Beacon - https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/ I have been using it for almost 2 years and can attest it does a good job. - Bud ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Jones" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 4:43:00 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] [fractint} pr_2d-1_2d-1_M1 By default, Cortana has an active keylogger sending your keystrokes to Microsoft. If that's not malware, then why do you worry about an "unknown" site (like Imgur, which apparently is unknown only to you) leaving a cookie when you visit their site? You know the saying, if the service is free, *you* (private info about you) are the product they sell. Applies to MS, Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, etc. So install Cookie Autodelete, a good ad blocker, route your browsing through TOR, and get your own domain. Then you - and others - don't have to worry. Enough from me. On January 31, 2018 2:15:24 PM HST, Albrecht Niekamp <Multifrac@t-online.de> wrote:
True, but that´s a different story. You know that when you install it and take care. And MS is not malware, hopefully, but unknown sites, that collect data ?? Albrecht
On 01.02.2018 00:56, David W. Jones wrote:
Yet Albrecht uses Microsoft OneDrive and Windows 10, which is the biggest piece of spyware ever invented.
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