Question re allowing startup programs

[Pat Willener]

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).

 

[Bill Sanderson]

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.

 

[Pat Willener]

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