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TonyS
AskWoody Plus?
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusI, and at least one other, am using SpyBot AntiBeacon http://tinyurl.com/nzjh8aa which claims to work with W7 and W8.1 as well as W10. I cannot say any more than a) it claims to block telemetry sites and b) it hasn’t given me any cause for concern so far,
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusMe too
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusAmen!
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AskWoody PlusNovember 21, 2016 at 6:27 am in reply to: Malwarebytes stumbles with false positive on KB 3197868, the Win7 November Monthly Rollup #21839I have MWB scheduled to scan every day and it checks for updates regularly, so either I’ve been lucky on the timing or it’s ‘cos I’m not running MSE.
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusNovember 21, 2016 at 6:04 am in reply to: Malwarebytes stumbles with false positive on KB 3197868, the Win7 November Monthly Rollup #21837Am I right in saying that the problem with MWB only occurs if MSE is being used as well? I’m also running MWB AntiExploit but don’t use MSE and have experienced no issues so far. (I may regret that statement!)
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusCan’t speak for Woody, but it would be good if you could report the above in any ‘Telemetry’ forum/subforum that Woody sets up in the near future, then it’s easily available for posterity. I for one look forward to seeing your work.
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusNovember 21, 2016 at 5:32 am in reply to: MS-DEFCON 4: Time to get November Windows and Office patches applied #22265@AJ thanks for the heads up on Belarc. It’s a long time since I used it but I ran it today and you’re right, it does show my pc as fully patched, whereas Secunia still shows the MSUpdate rollup patch. So Secunia stays to monitor other software and (whilst I remain in Group B, and as Woody said originally) I’ll take the proverbial pinch of salt with what it reports on MS patches.
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TonyS
AskWoody Plus1.General (eg About Woody, Forum rules, Sign-up link etc)
2.Monthly updates (Group A/B/W, Use of MS Catalog, Patches by month)
3.Windows (General eg Speedup patches, Telemetry , W7, W8.1, W10, Other?)
4.Other OS – just in case
5. Anti Virus (General and Specific eg MS, 3rd party by name – Avast, Norton, MWB etc
7.Off TopicAll forums and subforums to have ‘sticky’ topics at top (sorry, I did take Latin at school but pedantry can go only so far regarding fora!)
Just my thoughts
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AskWoody PlusNovember 20, 2016 at 10:51 am in reply to: Malwarebytes stumbles with false positive on KB 3197868, the Win7 November Monthly Rollup #21796Group B (security patch only) with MWB Pro and no problems to date. Let’s hope it continues that way.
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusNovember 19, 2016 at 2:39 pm in reply to: MS-DEFCON 4: Time to get November Windows and Office patches applied #22198Yeah that happened to me too. Completed update on reboot. That was on x64. X86 machine worked fine .
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AskWoody PlusNovember 19, 2016 at 10:50 am in reply to: MS-DEFCON 4: Time to get November Windows and Office patches applied #22176That’s happened to me both last and this month. After installing the Security Only patch, both MS Update and Secunia continue to show the rollup patch. Don’t worry about it – I’m not!
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AskWoody PlusUnderstood and respected.
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusI haven’t got over Brexit yet. How DO you choose beween a rock and a hard place without getting a bruise ? Good luck, you’ll need it whatever the outcome!
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TonyS
AskWoody PlusDouble, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Fasten locks,
M$ KB’s doth knock!Win10 22H2 Pro, MBAM Premium, Firefox, OpenOffice, Sumatra PDF.
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