Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
by jqm on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:03AM
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Interesting. I read sometime back that MS was going to disable changing the hosts file. I guess that was just rumor?
Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
by ionised on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:15AM
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I'm not sure how they could. It's just a text file.
There is however the issue that adding entries to the hosts file may not change anything, as the domains for this telemetry collection might be hardcoded elsewhere and would likely override/ignore the hosts file.
Disabled every form of data collection possible from the Settings and also edited Group Policy and the registry to disable further collection.
I've also edited the hosts file and added entries for dozens of domains associated with MS telemtry and reporting.
At this point Comodo Firewall was still reporting some suspicious outbound connection requests which I've analysed and blocked most of.
System still works fine and is getting updates okay but I'm sure there is plenty I've missed or that people do not know about yet.
I'm honestly considering rolling back to a clean install of Windows 7 SP1. I'm really not liking Win 10 the more I learn about it.