20+ Windows Vista Features & Services Collecting Your Information

by DJ Neawedde | 5th July 2007

If you use Windows Vista, then you should know that over 20 Windows Vista features and services are collecting and giving your personal data to Microsoft. Microsoft should have these things listed out (like below) and put right in front of every Vista user’s face before they install the OS.

Which programs collect your data and send to Microsoft? Windows Update, Web Content, Digital Certificates, Auto Root Update, Windows Media Digital Rights Management, Windows Media Player, Malicious Software Removal/Clean On Upgrade, Network Connectivity Status Icon, Windows Time Service, and the IPv6 Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal service (Teredo).

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    20+ Windows Vista Features & Services Collecting Your Information

    by DJ Neawedde | 5th July 2007

    If you use Windows Vista, then you should know that over 20 Windows Vista features and services are collecting and giving your personal data to Microsoft. Microsoft should have these things listed out (like below) and put right in front of every Vista user’s face before they install the OS.

    Which programs collect your data and send to Microsoft? Windows Update, Web Content, Digital Certificates, Auto Root Update, Windows Media Digital Rights Management, Windows Media Player, Malicious Software Removal/Clean On Upgrade, Network Connectivity Status Icon, Windows Time Service, and the IPv6 Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal service (Teredo).

    Read [Softpedia]


    Related Posts

  • O’Reilly: 5 best and worst things about Windows Vista
  • Windows Vista and Office ships November 30th
  • Windows ‘Vienna’: successor to Vista coming 2009
  • New ‘Windows 7′ OS ready by 2010? Nah.
  • Mystery Microsoft Men on Vista DVD
  • Microsoft shutting down “Longhorn Reloaded”
  • Subscribe



    Leave a Reply

    XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>