It been a few weeks since the launch of Windows 10 and millions of people upgraded their systems to Windows 10 and few after upgrading revert the action due to the stringent privacy policies. Recently a news has been released stating that Windows 7 and 8 also started spying.
#Windows 10 has many features that may cause some users to feel that Microsoft is interfering in the user's privacy such as #Wi-Fi sense and there is no disabling option for the Windows Update option. Even thought the settings can be changed many users disliked the act.
Before few days the Microsoft released some updates that has to be made to Windows 7 and Windows 8 and they are the update that helps the Microsoft to start spying on the users. The updates are as
KB3068708
KB3022345
KB3075249
KB3080149
These updates has been released and the updates enables the "#Diagnostics and Telemetry Tracking" feature in the system which allows the system to exchange information with the Microsoft server even the privacy setting has been enabled in the system.
These updates bypass user preferences in the system and then starting to exchange information with the following two servers according to the gHacks article
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
If you have installed you can uninstall them by going to Control Panel -> View Installed Updates -> Remove the above stated updates. Once done you can hide them to prevent them from installing while rebooting.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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