Spybot Anti-Beacon for Windows 10

the file hosts is in "read only" mode
untick read only to save, then tick it again

That doesnt work either, I even copied the file then made the changes and tried to replace the old unchanged file but then tells me I dont have the permissions to do so even though my account is the only admin account on the computer.
 
That doesnt work either, I even copied the file then made the changes and tried to replace the old unchanged file but then tells me I dont have the permissions to do so even though my account is the only admin account on the computer.

and spybot is able to change it ?! if you cancel host tweak in spybot it resets the file ?
may be a problem account but if spybot can do it and you not....
 
Minimize to tray

I am unable to minimize Anti-Beacon to Windows tray.

I have tried 3 different traying programs and A-B is the only one that refuses to tray.
Any idea why and is there a way around this?

Thanks.
 
answers

- not updated
- no need ton keep in memory
- still the problem with skype temporary resolved by non-apply hosts' list or deleting line about "gateway...." in hosts
- O&O shutup 10 complete well SBAB and is "anniversary-Update-ready"
 
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- not updated
- no need ton keep in memory
- still the problem with skype temporary resolved by non-apply hosts' list or deleting line about "gateway...." in hosts
- O&O shutup 10 complete well SBAB and is "anniversary-Update-ready"

I am using AB in W7 (ShutUP in W10).

None of the reasons you quote seems to justify the drawback of inability to traymin. The open button takes too much space on the task bar and I prefer it to take space in memory rather than there. All programs do that, so particularly one that just runs in the background should.
 
I am using AB in W7 (ShutUP in W10).

None of the reasons you quote seems to justify the drawback of inability to traymin. The open button takes too much space on the task bar and I prefer it to take space in memory rather than there. All programs do that, so particularly one that just runs in the background should.

ShutUP 10 sneaks up opencandy adware on the system.
 
ShutUP 10 sneaks up opencandy adware on the system.

Thanks for the info. The question is what is worse: MS telemetry or ShutUp10 adware.


Had I had minimal trust in MS I would have said at least telemetry can help improve Windows, but I don't have it.

Does A-B work in W10?
 
Did anyone find a fix for the OneDrive Service undo bug? I cannot undo it and I've seen other people that had this problem on this thread. This is extremely annoying, I literally can't sign in into any app: Mail, Calendar, Xbox, Windows Store.
 

OO shutup does not install itself or any open candy. But what we really need is a program that is constantly updated, NOT Spybot Anti-beacon which is NEVER updated. At least OO shutup is update fairly regularly. Not that any of this really matters as google and bing (microsoft) know everything about you anyways.
 
How to Undo OneDrive Service Block

Did anyone find a fix for the OneDrive Service undo bug? I cannot undo it and I've seen other people that had this problem on this thread. This is extremely annoying, I literally can't sign in into any app: Mail, Calendar, Xbox, Windows Store.

I'm having this same issue. I can't undo the OneDrive Service. Now I can't access OneDrive or download and install any app in Microsoft Store. I also have telemetry hosts that are blocked that I can't undo.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks,

Jeff
 

It does sneaks up opencandy. Antiviruses don't detect it for whatever reasons. I reinstalled W10 to remove that adware. I didn't know i had that adware until i checked in Kaspersky firewall as it was listed there along with other normal applications. Shutup10 is good and the adware may not be a threat but i don't like it sneaking adware.
 
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and spybot is able to change it ?! if you cancel host tweak in spybot it resets the file ?
may be a problem account but if spybot can do it and you not....

No, spybot stops responding when I have it try to run the changes it should do to the host file, I just tried to save over the host file on my laptop that has windows 7 and still unable to even though the user account is admin. I have no clue why.
 
No, spybot stops responding when I have it try to run the changes it should do to the host file, I just tried to save over the host file on my laptop that has windows 7 and still unable to even though the user account is admin. I have no clue why.

To add onto that, I have tried using hostsman and it is also unable to save over the file as well. SO I think they made an update to the file so that its harder for users to edit the file.
 
To add onto that, I have tried using hostsman and it is also unable to save over the file as well. SO I think they made an update to the file so that its harder for users to edit the file.

Try setting permissions to full access from hosts file properties and try temporarily disable antivirus. If that doesn't work just boot using live cd and edit the hosts file.
 
Anti-Beacon any effect on windows 2016?

I'm planning on taking a few hours to "lock-down" Windows 2016 server; since Windows 2016 is a little more than a glorified version of Windows 10 would there be any useful results in running Anti-Beacon against Windows 2016 server? I'm not very confident that it would be of any use, but thought I'd just put the question out there. Thanks in advance and best regards...
 
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