Re:Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new I...
by phs318u on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:03AM
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Hadn’t heard of Blackbird. Sounded awesome. But...
1. “Note: Some anti-virus products may detect Blackbird as malware.”
2. “Last updated: Nov. 10, 2016”
...now, not so much. sigh And I really wanted to believe.
Re:Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new I...
by nitrogen on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:13AM
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I've had software of mine flagged by overeager antivirus just for being new and uncommon. It labels it as "WS.Reputation.1". If that's the only detection it's most likely nothing to worry about.
Re:Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new I...
by phs318u on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:05AM
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Thanks for the info. I’ll run clamscan over it and if it’s what you suggest I’ll snapshot my Windows VM and give it a whirl.
Re:Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new I...
by aepiepaey on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:38AM
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https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/b14abe7b4af30cbc5eddfc72e8...
So, probably safe.
I ran LTSB for a year and it was brilliant. But on day 366 (or whever my slmgr -rearm trick ran out) you get locked out with no real way to change to a different SKU or reset without a clean install :(
There's a program called BlackBird (http://getblackbird.net/) that claims to strip out all that telemetry. I have been running it for a while and while I haven't closely inspected traffic to validate the author's claims my bandwidth monitor widget doesn't have a lot to report, rarely rising above 1kb/sec unless I'm doing something.