Question re allowing startup programs

I do not reboot very often, so it doesn't bother me much that I am
prompted to allow or deny certain startup programs.

My question is: is my action (e.g. allow) each time sent to SpyNet, so
that it may eventually get classified as 'benignware' ? (It is an old
archive program DataKeeper from PowerQuest).

I believe that if you've joined Spynet, user choice actions such as that are
getting recorded. (I'm envisioning a large room full of buckets with drops
coming down from above into the various buckets.)

I don't know how big the buckets are or how full they have to be before they
are considered valid evidence of something, but that recording is happening.

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"Pat Willener" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:O3PMJNCPGHA.3204@TK2MSFTNGSA03.privatenews.microsoft.com...
>I do not reboot very often, so it doesn't bother me much that I am prompted
>to allow or deny certain startup programs.
>
> My question is: is my action (e.g. allow) each time sent to SpyNet, so
> that it may eventually get classified as 'benignware' ? (It is an old
> archive program DataKeeper from PowerQuest).

Thanks for the info; that was what I was hoping to hear.

Bill Sanderson wrote:
> I believe that if you've joined Spynet, user choice actions such as that are
> getting recorded. (I'm envisioning a large room full of buckets with drops
> coming down from above into the various buckets.)
>
> I don't know how big the buckets are or how full they have to be before they
> are considered valid evidence of something, but that recording is happening.