Is your Windows spying you?
Posted in Software | By AhTim @ December 12th, 2007
According to my Awstat, 73.8% of my readers in AhTim.com is using Windows as their operating system. But do you know that while you are using Windows, Microsoft might be restriving your computer’s information without your knowledge? Someone might not care about what the Microsoft doing, but for me, as an advance user I will not allow someone to retrive my data without my permission. How about you?
How to stop Microsoft spy?
To stop your Windows to communicate with Microsoft servers and send out your computer’s information, you need XPY for WinXP and Vispa for Win Vista. Vispa was build based on XPY source code with the same purpose. So what are you waiting for? Click on the link above and download to your computer.
Both executable files are not exceed 100kb, so it should be finish download within seconds. No installation needed, just double click on the executable file to open the software. After that, you will see software option like screenshot below, you might want to select those services that shown in the screenshot then click apply. A restart is needed to make your settings take effect.
XPY settings:
Vispa settings:
My two cents
In my opinion, XPY and Vispa is a good tiny tool to improve our privacy settings as well as system’s security. And further more, it Free! 
So if you are Windows user, why don’t download and protect your computer now?
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Tags: vispa, windows security, xpy
December 13th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Hi, thanks for your information. I believe windows put something on our computer and will always retrieve information. I just scared these information will reach advertisers hand and then we will start receiving spam mail! Thanks AhTim for sharing this information!
December 13th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
thx……did what u said