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Exactly, I could not have put it better myself.Mate as Ranger has said there are literally billions of users around the world and Microsoft are not the only ones who like to know where you have been what you have don bought or whatever take for example Google and Apple they amongst the many collect any info you are likely to put on your system and it only takes a hookup to the net and it is freely available.I'm trying to find happy medium, keeping my system safe and not leaving myself wide open, anyone elsehelp me wih some up to date links on what to do?
Just lately I watched a few TV documentary programs that looked into cyber crime and the business of hacking and it was quite apparent to me that if someone wants to get into your system for whatever reason they will. You only need to see what that Anonymous site can do to see it is futile and the best way of securing any info that is so important to you is not to put it on the net.
I have to admit I was very anti 10 until I eventually came to realise that privacy as such is not truly a realistic expectation in the broad world we now live in and I thought now why would anyone be interested in what I was posting or looking at unless it was an illegal activity or had some monetary value to be taken from me.
It is a risk that we all take every time we login and if you spend the rest of your life worrying about it then I think is going to be a miserable way of life. Just look at the number of sites you must have that you enter info/data into banks, shopping sites, forums, and the stuff they enter into your medical records etc etc
I am not saying don't be careful just you need to accept that it is a way of life now and the old world order of privacy has now been well and truly compromised by the advance of technology.
Back to updates I like the others do download when they will critical and important ones the optional's well I do not have the time or patience for one thing to research them - it just cuts into your time to deal with other stuff.