Security Tales: The Voracious Update
Vladimir Bezmaly | 15.08.2017
- Potapych, come visit?
- What, Khryusha, a computer again?
- Yeah! You know, I'm a modest girl. I don't understand anything about your computers. Can you help?
- What happened?
— The computer seems to be working as usual, but the Internet speed has dropped.
- Yes, ask your provider, they should help you.
- Yeah, I asked, they said that there is a lot of traffic coming from me, so figure it out yourself.
- Well then, check your computer with an antivirus.
- Yes, I checked, he didn’t find anything.
- Okay, make some tea with honey, I'll come on Saturday.
Saturday has come.
- Good morning, Piglet!
- Good day, Potapych!
- Let's see what's wrong with your computer.
- So, Khryusha, your computer is clean. Let's see what it sends out. When you last updated, were you offered to set up telemetry data collection? What did you do?
- How? I set all the switches to "On" so as not to bother my head. What? Do I have to read everything? I don't have time, and I don't understand.
- What are you doing? You just turned everything on???
- Well, yes, why?
— So, especially for you, a privacy settings macedonia mobile database was added during the update process.
- So what?
- That's why you have so much traffic!
- So what should I do?
- It's okay, I'll have to reinstall everything. Anyway, I'll come to you tomorrow too. Now, when you decide to update, if you don't understand, call me right away, okay?