Author Topic: Windows 10's New Feature Steals Your Internet Bandwidth  (Read 697 times)

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Offline mrclose

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Windows 10's New Feature Steals Your Internet Bandwidth
« on: August 05, 2015, 05:43:26 am »
Just ran across this and thought that some folks who are on metered bandwidth would be interested.

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Windows 10 actually steals bandwidth from your ISP connection so that Microsoft can use your computer, and your connection, to send MS updates to their other customers.

Huh? Say what?

Yep. It's a devious little feature called Windows Update Delivery Optimization. It's enabled by default. For Enterprise and Education users, it operates over the local LAN. For ordinary Home type users, Microsoft can send their data update goodies to potentially any PC on the global Internet -- from your PC, over your Internet connection. On your dime.

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001116.html
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Re: Windows 10's New Feature Steals Your Internet Bandwidth
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2015, 03:06:50 am »
Sounds dangerously close to creating a botnet.