Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program

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Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program
Violation of my personal privacy.

No doubt after some update download (automatic or manual
which I cannot say), I see a new, unknown reddish square
icon in the systray. Clicking it brings up an invitation to
allow Microsoft to monitor my computer.

I look into msconfig (startup and processes), task window,
services.msc but I cannot find what has started this icon
and I don't know where in the registry to find and kill it
and what ever actually allows this root-kit activity.

The MS site
http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/en-us/default.mspx
informs that no-run options are available in MS applications
under Help or preferences. I have no trust that setting a
flag is going to insure no snooping.

"Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program", aka
CEIP, seems to embody spy ware, root-kit, key-click, eaves
dropping, warrantless searches, etc.

I have nothing to hide, and I am not paranoid. I am quite
sure what ever data might be gleaned from me would be
lost/buried in the aggregate, but I do not like the idea
that MS, or any other entity can snoop by hiding code on my
computer.

How to kill CEIP? Ideas on sniffing out other kinds of
similar activities? Ideas on how to stop this in the first
place?
 
Send e-mail to (e-mail address removed).
and explain your issue.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program
| Violation of my personal privacy.
|
| No doubt after some update download (automatic or manual
| which I cannot say), I see a new, unknown reddish square
| icon in the systray. Clicking it brings up an invitation to
| allow Microsoft to monitor my computer.
|
| I look into msconfig (startup and processes), task window,
| services.msc but I cannot find what has started this icon
| and I don't know where in the registry to find and kill it
| and what ever actually allows this root-kit activity.
|
| The MS site
| http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/en-us/default.mspx
| informs that no-run options are available in MS applications
| under Help or preferences. I have no trust that setting a
| flag is going to insure no snooping.
|
| "Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program", aka
| CEIP, seems to embody spy ware, root-kit, key-click, eaves
| dropping, warrantless searches, etc.
|
| I have nothing to hide, and I am not paranoid. I am quite
| sure what ever data might be gleaned from me would be
| lost/buried in the aggregate, but I do not like the idea
| that MS, or any other entity can snoop by hiding code on my
| computer.
|
| How to kill CEIP? Ideas on sniffing out other kinds of
| similar activities? Ideas on how to stop this in the first
| place?
 
User said:
Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program
Violation of my personal privacy.

No doubt after some update download (automatic or manual which I cannot
say), I see a new, unknown reddish square icon in the systray. Clicking
it brings up an invitation to allow Microsoft to monitor my computer.

I look into msconfig (startup and processes), task window, services.msc
but I cannot find what has started this icon and I don't know where in
the registry to find and kill it and what ever actually allows this
root-kit activity.

The MS site http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/en-us/default.mspx
informs that no-run options are available in MS applications under Help
or preferences. I have no trust that setting a flag is going to insure
no snooping.

"Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program", aka CEIP, seems to
embody spy ware, root-kit, key-click, eaves dropping, warrantless
searches, etc.

I have nothing to hide, and I am not paranoid. I am quite sure what ever
data might be gleaned from me would be lost/buried in the aggregate, but
I do not like the idea that MS, or any other entity can snoop by hiding
code on my computer.

How to kill CEIP? Ideas on sniffing out other kinds of similar
activities? Ideas on how to stop this in the first place?
Click to expand...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...rience+Improvement+Program&btnG=Google+Search
 
I do find the name of the program amusing: like they care about our experience ??!!
If so, no need for spyware - just fix things that everyone has complained about for years - like one of my customers being on
hold waiting for MS support for 40 minutes when I arrived . Just then MS support answered the call - their recommendation ? Reboot
the machine - if it happens again call us back.
Didn't ask anything about reg dumps etc - just reboot.
No need - he powered it off, returned the server and bought a unix box.
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