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LouS
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can somebody please explain to my technologically challenged brain why my internet connection seems to be down (This webpage is not available DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG) on all sites except OmegaForums? Are Trev and Ash just that good?
 
LouS
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appears to be something screwy with the new Windows 10 Firewall. Anyone have any similar issues
 
oddboy
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When in doubt, reboot.

They have been pushing out win10 updates last few days.
 
Stewart H
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I don't think I'm going to bother upgrading from Windows 7.

This is the body of an e-mail I received last Friday from an IT security company - I have no idea how I ended up on their contact list but I get a "Security Threat of the Week" e-mail every Friday:

If you were paying attention, a couple of weeks back we raised the subject of the enormous amount of data being exfiltrated from your machines to the mountain halls (well DataCentres) of Microsoft when you use Windows 10, especially if it is configured with default express settings.

What data do they collect? Well quite a lot actually:

· Search queries submitted to Bing
· A voice command to Cortana
· Private communications including email content
· Information from a document uploaded to OneDrive
· Requests to Microsoft for support
· Error reports
· Information gathered from cookies
· Data collected from third parties

This was discovered just after the launch of Windows 10, when Microsoft changed their End User License Agreement to make it ok, at least on paper.
 
LouS
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all true, as I have discovered when I went deeper into their Settings interface
 
FullyWound
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"FLUSH" (clear) your DNS Servers
failing that
Flush Your Windows
and buy a Mac
 
Foo2rama
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Stewart H Stewart H
I don't think I'm going to bother upgrading from Windows 7.

This is the body of an e-mail I received last Friday from an IT security company - I have no idea how I ended up on their contact list but I get a "Security Threat of the Week" e-mail every Friday:

If you were paying attention, a couple of weeks back we raised the subject of the enormous amount of data being exfiltrated from your machines to the mountain halls (well DataCentres) of Microsoft when you use Windows 10, especially if it is configured with default express settings.

What data do they collect? Well quite a lot actually:

· Search queries submitted to Bing
· A voice command to Cortana
· Private communications including email content
· Information from a document uploaded to OneDrive
· Requests to Microsoft for support
· Error reports
· Information gathered from cookies
· Data collected from third parties

This was discovered just after the launch of Windows 10, when Microsoft changed their End User License Agreement to make it ok, at least on paper.

Congrats you mean the data that every OS sends back home. Nothing out of the ordinary here. You got hit with what appears to be marketing spam email targeted to people that don't understand tech well and they are trying to scare you.
 
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