Windows 10 - Quietly Logging EVERY KEYSTROKE You Type And Sending It To Microsoft(How To Stop It)

SHTF Plan ^ | 3-25-2017 | Mac Slavo

[blam]

Yesterday we reported that an international group of hackers claim they have breached Apple’s iCloud user database and stolen 300 million usernames and passwords. The group has threatened to initiate a widespread factory reset on April 7th, 2017, potentially wiping out data on tens of millions of iPhones and iCloud accounts should Apple fail to pay a ransom.

But that breach by nefarious hackers, while serious, is nothing compared to what your trusted operating system provider may be doing on your personal computer.

According to a recent report, if you are a Windows 10 user then every single keystroke you have ever typed on your computer may have been logged and sent to Microsoft.

You know those nagging questions during the installation process that ask you whether or not you want to “help” improve Windows by sending data to Microsoft? If you happened to answer “yes” to one of these questions, or if you went with the Microsoft default installation, there is a real possibility that everything you have done on your computer from the get-go, including sending “secure” messages (because the keyboard logger captures your keystrokes before they appear in your secure messaging app), is now a part of a massive user database somewhere.

There’s been heaps of controversy associated with Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 10 since it was launched, but the latest issue takes the cake – apparently Windows has been quietly logging every single keystroke users make on their keyboards from the beginning. Even better, that data is being constantly sent to Microsoft’s servers on a regular basis.

Via IB Times

It’s been reported that Microsoft has been using the data to improve artificial intelligence writing and grammar software, but it’s not clear what else they are doing with it.

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[Victor]

Ping

[ducttape45]

Another reason why I will never use Windows 10. It gives the one's controlling it the ability to spy on you.

Yes, federal government, I'm talking about you!

[Jim W N]

Thanks. Actually I found it for Win-10, Google Chrome using this instruction someone sent me:

Go to your bottom taskbar, click on the box on the lowest right corner ( also called notifications ) . Will give you All settings, also on the lowest right. Click on that and privacy setting are there.

[publius911]

The On & Off buttons are there only for display. You turn the slide button Off it is still On!

Well D'UH!

Changes do not take place until after a reboot (theoretically)
That's not conclusive; it may still be all for show.

CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT FOR...
MAKING THEIR EULA INCOMPREHENSIBLE
AND
LOGGING ANYTHING WE TYPE without our consent.

Europe seems to be more intensely intolerant about Microsoft abuse.

[StockJockey]

Settings
Privacy

[publius911]

“Time to roll back to W7.”
Time to roll back to MS-DOS :)

Time to roll back to Commodore DOS
I could solve any engineering or science problem I ever needed on that little sucker...

[publius911]

Hope that helps.

Ummm... NO

First you rebooted for things to be actually changed, right?.
And... after that, Microshaft WILL reset everything to what THEY want, after the next "update," whether you like it or not...

[TomGuy]

I use it only for my wife's MS Works spreadsheets to help her balance her checkbook.

I use a program called Money Manager EX (MMEX). Quicken got too bloated. Several other programs would only allow one bank account, etc. Money Manager EX allows numerous bank accounts, etc. It is also available for most common OS platforms -- Windows, Linux, Apple, Android -- and it is freeware.

FYI

http://www.moneymanagerex.org/

[RideForever]

Just noticed last night all settings reset after update. This is criminal, stealing my time to redo preferences, plus the bandwidth of All their updates.

[wally_bert]

Probably so.

I’ve forgotten just about all of what MS DOS I knew.

[hsmomx3]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/c171a83a-cd5e-4039-a794-2b7b68706c20/change-privacy-settings-in-windows-10

[hsmomx3]

Rebooted...don’t recall that. I just know I changed and turned these settings off. I did not have to reboot. They continue to stay off.

[itsahoot]

I was told Apple had the best security known to mankind.☺

You left off "Cook is a Queer" and Apple costs to much for sane people.

[little jeremiah]

I was forced into windows 10. And I am a techtard.

Maybe it’s up the thread, will look, but is there any way to stop the automatic updates? I searched, did what I was supposed to do but no, it didn’t stop them.

Also, sometimes it will do the updates during the day when computer is on and I am doing something else, and I’ll come back and my computer has turned off and then on, and everything I had up is gone. I tried to stop that too and couldn’t figure out how to do it.

Any ideas welcome.

[freds6girlies]

bookmark

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks that will probably be our next one.

My wife is satisfied with this one, and I print out each month by month on legal paper with a wide margin so she can make notes.

[Political Junkie Too]

Mine is grayed out and I can't turn it on even if I wanted to.

If it's grayed out, it's because you have Settings -> Privacy -> Feedback & diagnostics -> Diagnostic and usage data -> set to Basic. Changing this to a higher setting opens up the other settings.

-PJ

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Obviously told that by a Fainboi.

None of it is good protection from our Government. All most of it does is keep the small fish out.

[MarkL]

In the updates section of the settings, you can specify hours that updates can take place, but you can not turn them off.

If the system is not on when you’ve scheduled the updates, it will randomly pick a time and update & reboot the system, usually when you REALLY don’t want it to do so.

You can also defer the updates, but Win10 will only allow a certain number of deferrals before the system will override you.

Mark

[rockrr]

The other dodge for updates is if you are using a WiFi card for your networking. If you are then you can specify that the WiFi is using a metered connection (whether it is or not). As long as you don’t plug into Ethernet it won’t download updates.

I have a machine that I’ve been testing on for about a year and a half and I’ve been spared updates (so far).

https://www.howtogeek.com/226722/how-when-and-why-to-set-a-connection-as-metered-on-windows-10/