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That is Microsoft. Since microsoft repeatedly now have intentionally mislabled and ill-described malware they wanted to spread, my point is right about avoiding Microsoft servers alltogether. I do not trust them that they will only do what they say they only will do. They lied too often.
Did you know how I installed W7 fresh two years ago? I unplugged the internet wire, installed W7, installed SP1, installed my patch archive, installed XP antispy (a German GUI for changing some dozen registry settings to prevent Windows phoning home all the time) and sealed W7 off from web-depending "services". Next I installed MBAM and a second security suite. Windows update has not been run, not a single time, never. Not before all this was done, I then installed the router and internet connection, went online, updated virus defintions and that stuff, and finally registered windows 7. Then I shut down even that channel again. And later they became pushy again to install W10 malware tehzcnoloigy into exiosting W7. Nicht mit mir. Ich hab die Schnauze voll. I do not want Micorsoft having access to my system anymore. Trust has been murdered too many times. W10 has been aggressively pushed and thrown in like a Molotow cocktail through he closed and locked window one time too often.
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And here is some food for thought.
People so often think just because they have turned off some privacy options, they would be safe. What they do not realise is that software settings - thats what options are - and physical switches (physical interrurption of cables and the like), are not the same. I just have checked my system a bit, as I use to do three or four times or so per year. In my windows update history, there should be no entry at all, since windows update service is switched off from all beginning on, since I installed this system two years ago. I had SP1 and patches done via DVD archive, not onöline updating, and the latter is what that history file is recording. Since no onöline upodatign ever took place, there should be no entry. And until spring, it was like this: no entry indeed. Now there is one single entry, from May, several days after my last checkup. KB4012212, 15.05.2017. It shouldn't be there. You hardly can seal off a system any more than I have done with mine. The update is related to the wannacry mess earlier this year, which was reported about. Somebody obviously decided it was so important that my isolated, sealed off, shut, closed and blocked system gets this update, that he nevertheless and without my knowledge squeezed it through the wire and onto my HD. The thing is not whether or not wannacry justifies this or not, whether it saved me from worse evil or not. The point is - it was possible to do so. When they can do it with this one, they can do it with just any piece of code they want to enforce on people. And the history of the GWX campaign shows that they bypassed explicit defences against getting an enforced W10 update several tens if not hundreds of thousands of times. Not by misleading people (that too, but that counts separately), or mislabeled clicking pois, but simply against the techncial settings of users who said No. This KB401221 update seems to be a defence against wannacry. Maybe it works for my best interest indeed, I don't know. But fact is I never gave consent to get it, I never was asked, I was not even aware of getting forced to get it, and I have deliberatly knocked down options of my system to get any updates by Microsoft at all. And I went far beyond the usual switches and option settings, but hacked some bit deeper into the registry to isolate my system from Microsoft's access. KB4012212 should not be there, but now it is there. THAT, and only that is the point. This weekend I will kill my W7 gaming system and reinstall all from new. And maybe I will leave out any game needing to be always online, and keep the internet wire unplugged after having registered W7. Surfing and emailing I already do via another (Linux) platform anyway.
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It's worse than that. Those of us with experience know how to use the Hosts file to short-circuit Dynamic Name Server calls for addresses and keep websites from being accessible from the machine. Windows 10 ignores Hosts file user settings and communicates directly with the IP numbers of its telemetry hosts, against the wishes of the machine owner. I don't know how they get out of their present position. They can talk nice all they want, but since they are not trusted, they can't ever get any traction. How do you unbreak a glass? Trust is like that.
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They're a business. I only trust any business to look after it's own interests. Windows is only a tool I use.
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If only someone could come up with a windows program/application launcher without actually having windows.
![]() I installed on my laptop dual boot Windows 10 or Ubuntu Linux, I should have purchased a copy of Windows XP 64bit and Linux, most of my programs are XP based and will not run in Win 10 or Linux without a lot of messing around and sometimes just not possible. Since I am stuck with the current setup I might turn off online access to Win 10 and import anything via Linux, Linux can atleast access Win 10 drives, still left with the problems of running Win XP programs. Has anyone toyed with Win 10 virtual desktops? I tried XP here but have a lot of problems with drivers. ![]()
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I use VMware to run Xp on my Windows 10 system. It works great but you still have to own and install Xp. VMware is is an interface that will set aside 40G of HDD space for each virtual machine you want to create and upgrading it doesn't change the virtual machine content, just the interface. It also lets you use all the peripherals attached to your PC, DVD drive, printer, etc.
Downside is you still have to install the virtual machine operating system just like a normal install, and it doesn't run games very well. I use it to run older graphics software and CAD style programs that are broken in a 64 bit environment.
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I gave up on VMs under Linux , once I got myself to finally check it out closer. For those gamne/sim titles that I need Windows for, for example Assetto Corsa and Raceroom, or FSX, or SBP, I would not just need the sim running, but also additional controller hardware: Fanatec stuff, CH gear. The games ran like #### and drivers for the hardware messed things up even more. Linux drivers for these things: non-existent. So what use would it make for me to have any racing game running under Linux if I cannot use the - sophisticated - Fanatec hardware for game input? None, obviously.
Some of the games I use, are also available for Steam OS/Linux. That is nice, but still leaves out many other games, and simulations are an even worse aspect of it all. Thats why I so desperately depend on Windows 7. If it would be all well with simulations and gaming in Linux land, i would have fired Windows 7 off my HD completely by now. While there are exceptions to the rule, it still is a valid rule: Linux and the vast majority of games do not fit well together. Linux is for surfing and work - not for gaming in general. There are exceptions, but again: exceptions do not define the rule. Driver support for all that hardware out there is one of the weak things of Linux. My advise thus remains the same: two systems. One Windows gaming system, one Linux everything-else system. For hardcore gamers and simmers, Linux simply is not alternative. Check steam, you will see that amny games are avialbole for Linux/SteamOS by now. But then, check out also how many games are not.
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