I have two computers, as I'm sure I've mentioned before, and both are dual-booting, one with Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17.2, and the other with Windows 7 SP1 and Linux Mint 17.2. This is a screen of the spyware results for the computer with Win-7-Linux on it. The significant thing about this is that during that same period in which there were 589 tracking cookies planted in the Windows 10/Linux PC, there were none planted in this one.
From that, you may draw your own conclusions. The conclusions I'm drawing are that Microsoft's passing around Windows 10 as a free upgrade apparently is assumed by them to give them the right to plant as much spyware in it as they like, along with spyware from all their official and unofficial contributors and contractors. And if you took exception to anything about "freedom" I wrote in the previous post here, perhaps you ought to re-think that.
And it goes without saying that if you're running Windows 10, you'd better have a damned good spyware detector and use it, and check it frequently, and keep its database up to date.
And this is something else you should have. If you buy the Premium version, it has a couple of "extras" including the ability to block incoming malware and show you its IP Address, which you can add to a "blocked" list of sites if you wish. It also has a special scanning feature you can activate which can find things not easily detected by other security programs, and remove those even from an infected machine. And you don't get these things in other programs.
Another handy program to run periodically is Norton Power Eraser. It's a freebie from Symantec and it scans for rootkits and other hidden nasty stuff, and can send whatever it finds back to home base for complete identification, as well as removing it. And it also can repair your Registry if it finds errors there. And it works.
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