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I've wondered how these apps go about stopping this stuff, given that Windows is closed source. Do they somehow get their hands on the source? Or is it all Reve
by AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
I've wondered how these apps go about stopping this stuff, given that Windows is closed source. Do they somehow get their hands on the source? Or is it all Reverse-Engineering?
- satysin 10y agoAll of these programs are hacks. They delete/rename/move the executables that have been identified by system monitoring to be the source of such data collection. The problem is using any such tool will put you into the world of unsupported modification.
- tdicola 10y agoIf something has to phone home to the mothership over the internet it's easy to hook into Windows networking stack at a very low level and see all the network traffic (just run Wireshark, it's using all public APIs). And even if they don't let you get that low into the network stack on the machine you can always put it behind another machine as a proxy and watch everything going by on the wire, even using SSL mitm and such to crack that open.