Windows 10 is Evil! (Split from: Other forums)
garirry wrote:Regarding W10, I'm starting to get annoyed with the Windows 10 hate. It's actually pretty decent, and Windows 8/.1 was much worse than this. They do in fact do stuff like spying and advertising, but those are fairly minor and can be disabled, so it's not that bad.
Windows 10 honestly derserves most of the shit it gets. If you ask me, brain cancer is fairly mild to everything that is wrong with W10.
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"that" is a matter of opinion here.
I was on the road to tolerating 10, until I discovered ndis.exe and its purpose. Shut me off right there.
Added with the fact your computer never really shits down, it just runs a form of hibernation.
I think "ndis.exe" (Or ndis.sys depending on your system) is your NIC driver
I keep hoping that eventually they'll realize what a mistake it was having all this spying built in and remove it. As long as 10's market share remains low (it's lower than XP's last I checked), they'll be forced to fix it eventually and I really hope that they do, because honestly, apart from the spying, Windows 10 isn't that bad. It's certainly fixable if they'd just put the time in to fix it.
In the meantime, however, I plan on sticking with 8.1.
Any company can do that. OS X might have them. Linux might even have them!
No developer would honestly get away with putting a backdoor in Linux, or at least not for very long.
You can't change file permissions, change its startup type, delete it, or anything with it. Check services.msc for service info. File should be under the Windows Defender folder in program files.
You're being really overly paranoid about this. (Also, I don't have ndis.exe in my services.msc). But can we please get back on topic?
I'll see if I can download a 10 iso to put up the exe.
I don't have this file on my windows 10 system. What kind of Chinese/Russian shitty cracked version did you install to get said file?
I'm pretty sure the ndis.exe yourepicfailure's seeing is his network driver, he's just being overly paranoid.
Anyway, it is always a bit worrysome when a third party program probes your network. Antivirus programs often do report back to the mothership about what viruses they found. It would be dead simple for them to send back banking information, metadata about your goat porn, or flags about your plans to kill your Glorious Leader of choice. One would hope they would be bound by laws, etc to not do that, but given how more companies get away with more scummy things these days, it is something be concerned about.
BOD I have a device entitlement after "upgrading" from Win7Ultimate that I purchased 6 years back for a heap. I have used the Windows Update option to dump Win10 on my computer, legitimately.
There are the two executables that I have found 'again' that have particularly caught my eye- NisSRV.exe and ndis.exe (which I am the only one so far to have).
NisSRV, which identifies itself as "Microsoft Network Realtime Inspection Service" monitors for "malicious" activities on your connections similar to firewall, but it refers to Microsoft for what is deemed "malicious". So therefore Microsoft can, and will, monitor your connections and activities for things such as pirating, and can block them.
Ndis.exe, on the other hand, identifies itself as "Microsoft Defender Network Device Interfacing System". According to what I could find in the .exe and its actions, it appears to monitor things such as other devices on the network, and what it(the other device) or I do. I haven't observed other actions but that, so there could be more. Disabling services associated with networked devices and discovery stopped its actions, however with updates, those configurations may be reversed.
Why I am the only one with the .exe is beyond me. Maybe MS already knows 'completely' who I am and everything else about me, and sent off a special monitoring version for me, and possibly others, I don't know. I do know, me having this file while everyone else doesn't is just far too off.
I'm not the only person who said "Must be a shitty cracked version" (Or at least something similar), BOD said the same thing. A quick google search shows no forum posts, only a few "Is it safe?" pages, so either you're lieing about this or you have a virus, or there is somehow a really obscure thing that exists that only you have.
I'll check my other machine running Win10 for NisSRV.exe later.
If Microsoft has a grudge against me, personally(unlikely), I will begin considering the usage of Debian 7 full-time.
MS have had plenty of opportunity to do this over the years, given their high marketshare they *could* have theoretically almost stamped out piracy by doing so. So far I've never seen any evidence of MS doing anything whatsoever to prevent piracy or torrenting at all.
Also, do they really think all computers/laptops can accept this stupid upgrade? I don't think my laptop would take to it well as according to this. But once again, it needs stop. Now.
I removed the update on a few older desktops/laptops that weren't compatible with 10, and I haven't seen anything happen (I've installed some Windows updates and haven't had it reappear)
Luckily it never tried to upgrade my 9-year old Toshiba laptop even though that update is on it, Must think its incompatible.
I have nothing against Windows 10, I just think it's stupid that they're shoving it up Windows 7 users' throats. Anyone remember KB2934207 which was used to tell XP users about its support ending?
It's still savable... the OS is not that bad, they just need to fix a few things and stop all this nagware bullshit.
Yeah, the nagware is stupid...but it can be removed. The thing I dislike the most is that it auto-downloads 3GB worth of Win10 files. (I don't dislike the OS itself though, in fact I'm using it on the PC I'm on right now.
Also, the behaviour for this Win10 upgrade (or GWX) is pretty much comparable to what malware can do, am I right? Luckily, that thing didn't try to upgrade my system with my back turned. If it did, I would've trashed it. I just hope Microsoft realise what they've done wrong regarding this. This cannot go on any longer.
Windows 10 could be a very decent release. After recent patches and updates, it has managed to handle decently on my laptop, compared to when I previously ran it.
Maybe if they did a complete merge to the Settings app rather than split things down the middle and stop over simplifying, I'd drop off and go straight to it.
However, the forced tracking, fact that I am literally denied access to parts of my computer, and the malware-like activities have caused me to steer far away from it, when I could be jumping at it.
The likelihood of microsoft ceasing all these activities is just not likely. They spent time and money implementing them, and won't spend more to unimplement. Of all, it is likely to get worse.
By the way, triple6(66659hi) judging by how you never mentioned NisSrv.exe again, I'm guessing you have in fact found the file on your system?
Also, I just looked now and it was under "Windows Defender Network Service" and it wasn't even started.
"Forced Tracking" Haven't we gone over the fact that it can be disabled?