Be careful what you have on your PC if you upgrade to Windows 10


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I had an embarrassing moment once years ago when I was showing Picasa to my wife. I installed it and it started scanning the whole computer for images. Deep in my downloads folder were a few folders with some fairly tasteful nude collections that I must have downloaded months before and forgotten about. ...

Fortunately, my wife laughed, as the seemingly endless thumbnails of boobies started appearing.

 

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Shared? :p

Well, yes, my kids computers are denied access to my shared folders, only MY network bridge is allowed to view my shared folders, so I can stream my digital purchases to my ps3/4 and BDP

That's why he should have used this instead. Truecrypt Container +Portable Firefox.

HA! I see all my picture links are dead replaced with ads. Well the video still works.

LOL I have a similar story but support based, workmate asked me to rescue all his photos from a dead laptop, so i set recovery software on the removed drive, everything it came back with hits i recovered to a usb hdd. You know the score search for *.jpg, *.xls, *.doc etc.

Told him when i gave the drive back what id done, and suggested he went through manually it to be sure, as there were a couple of nudy shots, and it wasn't his wife.

About 6 weeks later my mate stormed into my dept looking very flustered, turns out he sat down with his wife to sort them out....first batch was most of his porn LMFAO, the look of horror when he remembered what id told him...priceless! 

Another one was for a paying customer via my dear old dad (don't you just hate those jobs, win 95 and dial up modem) recovered the photos etc and up one popped of a polaroid scanned of a lady with her baps out, blouse and apron draped down, infront of a very 1970s style fireplace, late 40s id say, thought to myself ugh thats orrible and carried on, so machine fixed and returned to my dad for delivery, he takes it and phones me later saying he cant get their modem to connect to compuserve (a while ago!) so I got the address and headed to meet my dad, get to the farmhouse and ring the door bell.....guess who answered.......yep that very same lady but clearly 30+ years later! (thankfully Baps NOT on show)

I've never fault diagnosed a connection so quickly ever in my life, OMFG scarred for life! hahahah, have never had the heart to tell my dad that!

Edited by Mando

Apparently Windows 10's picture app sends data to 65.52.108.33 or msnbot-65-52-108-33.search.msn.com everytime you open an image. This is probably that picture DNA in action.
But if you dont want MS seeing your porn collection, you may want to block it in your hosts file :p

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