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[Pc Health] Xp Anti Spy

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:15 pm
by quicksilver
This seems ideal for the more "worried" amongst The forum.

http://www.auspaytv.com/software/xpantispy3-english.zip
XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let's you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP.
For example, there's a service running in the background wich is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don't know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe and disable such functions. If you like, you can even disable these function manually, by going through the System and checking or unchecking some checkboxes. This will take you approximately half an hour. But why waste time when a little neat utility can do the same in 1 minute?

This utility has been successfully tested by many users, and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in WindowsXP. It's customizeable, but comes up with the Default settings, which are recommended.

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:43 am
by Rock
That seems smarter than going the the config files and sorting them out that way. Have you tried it yet Quicks? And ifso would you recommend it?

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:05 am
by quicksilver
I did try it a while back , and I would recommend this only for advanced user as a lot of the settings are quiet powerful and far reaching.
A newbie would be advised not to try this one just yet :)