I got one answer to my question in the title of this thread: Which firewalls can block Win10 phoning home? It is Fort Firewall. See...
I didn't know about O&O appbuster. Thanks for the tip!
Pale Moon was updated yesterday. See https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox, so it too uses its own cert...
@tnodir - thanks for your quick and technical reply! You did a great job with Fort Firewall to protect the PC from internet communications at...
Has anyone tested TinyWall's boot-time filter to see if it blocks internet access by the MS OS? Specifically, if you allow only the DHCP service,...
I have Win 8.1 now, and I am looking at Win 10 firewalls before I buy a new PC with Win 10. @tnodir - Thank you for your reply to my question in...
I don't have an MS account on Win 8.1. All my apps are not MS. Why would it be mandatory to create MS account for my new Win 10 PC? I block...
@Rasheed187 - Thanks for the tips. Is anybody using Privatefirewall who keeps up-to-date with Windows Updates? If so, was it necessary to...
I agree that when accessing Windows Updates online the user has no knowledge of what information is being sent to MS. So anybody anybody who...
What version of SpyShelter Firewall are you using? The free version? Why didn't you update SpyShelter? If you have tested whether SpyShelter...
A firewall must interface at a very low level to totally prevent Microsoft code from connecting to the internet during boot or other times. Here...
I am about to buy a new PC with Windows 10, and I would like to know others' experience with PF who have been keeping up with Windows Updates. If...
I have been Using System Explorer (http://systemexplorer.net/) for many years. I currently have v5.9.4 installed, and my firewall logs show no...
HorseTrainer updated his bug report on Backupper:...
What is BIBM? None of matches here made sense: http://www.acronymfinder.com/BIBM.html
For me, item-level recovery is very important, but rarely. I did some testing of the free and trial home editions of Macrium Reflect v6.0.753. I...
If you accidentally erase partitions, Partition Wizard Bootable CD Free Edition and other such tools can recover the partitions. This is because...
See http://www.aomeitech.com/forum/discussion/2076/windows-8-1-startup-failure-after-disk-restore-by-backupper-v3-2-winpe This excerpt from the...
@TheRollbackFrog - thanks for the detailed reply. I have used ShadowProtect for years with MBR disks. On my new PCs with GPT disks,...
Thanks for clarifying. Is the Rescue Media unique to each PC? Could I create Rescue Media on a 32-bit Windows 7 PC with MBR disks for use with a...
Does this mean that I can Macrium Reflect Free v6 on a computer with no connection to the internet, create a rescue disk, and use that rescue disk...
I saw a review of Macrium Reflect Free v5 that said: After installation you will be presented with a registration pop up box that contains a...
@HAN: I agree with what you said about the specific case of Conflicker. However, creating firewall rules to limit svchost.exe sending to...
The problem I brought up is a firewall rule allowing svchost.exe to send to all IP addresses. So a better question would be: Are there examples...
This app may be useful for updating a new PC before connecting it to the internet: http://www.wsusoffline.net/
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