Tina wrote:FYI: When I enabled the rule, it also blocked ALL URLs for some
reason. Specifically, I used IE11 to get to various normal URLs;
they all failed. My own e-mail peeper, which only has explorer.exe
as its' parent, also failed. However, when I restricted the rule
even further, to only the WinUpd service, then everything else worked
again. I'm hoping this will do it, even tho I've always kept that
service disabled (since '11),
I'm STILL drunk, 4th day in a row but I'll try to answer now. *lol* ... you can enable per application basis in Windows firewall. I usually make it so everything is closed then you can choose to only open IE etc. You just choose which program EXE file to open in firewall rules.
Tina wrote:...so, hopefully, my Win7 won't get
INFECTED(!) by Win10! I have to classify it as malware/virus/trojan,
since those newer KB fixes apparently installs their code to your
machine w/o your permission! I know a friend who woke up 1 day to
that different Win10 splash screen. She lost her passwords, had to
figure out how to connect for e-mail, etc! Only she knows how many
more problems that introduced to her machine!
...those sons of bitches at Microsoft... Windows 10 "upgrade" thing is acting exactly like virus imho.
Tina wrote:... I still use HOSTS to block most other URLs (due to dnsapi.dll?),
like the telemetry. I also DIS'd the latter via the registry,
which works, as the option is now greyed out.
Yeah, good to mix hosts and other stuff.
Tina wrote:... I also do many ROUTE ADDs to block various IPaddrs that I see when
doing PINGs and TRACERTs against the various WinUpd URLs that I see
in Win7 when I REVIEW available fixes, even tho there are many of them
that change; it seems to work, but, say, only 95% of the time.
Somehow, some still get thru, even if I have a ROUTE ADD for them.
It seems that MS installs a DNS server at connect time, as shown in a
ROUTE PRINT 0.0.0.0? I also monitor/log EV3008 in DNS-Client (stripped
and sorted to only show the description line which has the DNS, since
NETMON 3.4/DNS appears to be GONE in Win10?).
This one I don't know, never used it I think.
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Tina wrote:... Why am I doing all this? Since 15SEP, I have 33 problems with Win10
compared to Win7; 11 are still pending, either circumvented, or,
worse, LOSS OF FUNCTION! I can't tolerate such garbage!
Garbage indeed.
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