Apart from the Windows Operating System and Microsoft Office, Microsoft Security Essentials is also one of the finest product from Microsoft. This is one of the best antivirus program we have today but to many of us its Spynet utility is one of the most terrible function enabled. Though Microsoft Spynet is not a separate program, but its only purpose to collect information about suspicious activity flagged by both their security products when installed on your local computer. The general premise is, a network of users are likely to identify spyware based on whether they allow or block a particular item from executing on their systems. These items would be anything that Defender or Security Essentials do not yet contain a valid thumb print or signature on – meaning it doesn’t know if they are harmful or not. As an end-user, you are able to leverage Spynet and determine how other users have handled a piece of software that is otherwise suspicious. Hence for Microsoft it is a vital piece of application, to enhance security essential better, but for those who wants to disable and not want to be a part of further improvement, actually very well knows that there is no option to disable the Spynet from sending information to Microsoft. Is that so? Really there is no solution available?… Read this post further and know yourself….
Spynet is a actually a telemtry system Microsoft uses to quality control definition updates after they are released. According to the Microsoft news release, SpyNet reports back on the efficacy of old definition file removal and the implementation of new definitions, as well as how detection rates on false positives. So now if you really looking for a disable follow the steps given below.
Steps to Disable/ Prevent Spynet From Sending Information to Microsoft
Go to Start > Run
Type Regedit and press enter.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware\SpyNet
Change the value of the name SpyNetReporting to 0 to prevent your PC from participating in the SkyNet network.
You should reboot your system to fully apply the change however. That’s it. Spynet has been disabled from Microsoft security essentials and now onwards none of your information will be send to Microsoft through Spynet reporting.
