[dba-Tech] Has anyone used WinCDEnu?

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Gustav:

The fellow does not have Windows 10 installed, on his computers, yet, even though he has around five systems all with Windows 7 on them. He is still no sure about the product and is waiting until the last minute to do the upgrade. (After that he wants me to come over and remove all the features that will violate his privacy...)

Aside: I have some growing concerns with Windows 10 interrogation of the entire network and it subsequent sharing of this information with Microsoft.  The latest full version, I have installed, list all the services it has discovered and I am more than upset. If it was the one station, it would be one thing but its probing lists every device, every protocol and every type of system on the network.

The list all Windows, Linux and Apple products. It lists each device, each protocol, address and port:  example VNC, SVN, SSH, IP, Teredo, TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, Torrent synchronization and so on. It discovers all the computers and connected devices like the servers, their activity, the TV, the cell phones, tablets, laptops, routers, printers. It also logs all the wireless locations that the mobile devices have used externally...that is a little over the top.    

There is a reason why security is setup on a network. It protects not only external cyber attacks but also protects the integrity of databases, visibility of servers that are supposed to be outside the viewing range of other users, anywhere on the network. This OS releases full viewing access to any person on the network.

No sugar coating can describe Windows 10 as anything less than a network VIRUS...a very bad virus. For the next few days I will have to monitor the beast and try to remove all it probing services and block its connecting with the mothership. I also have no idea whether it encrypts any of the data it discovers on the network, when forwarding it to Redmond and whether it just shares that data with any third-party. If this was not just a small home network but a network belonging to a large business there is no telling how much damage Windows 10 could do to the companies internal security and protected data.  

IMHO, Windows 10 should never be used in any business...it is just too dangerous. It makes all of a company's private information public or worse yet public to certain external cyber entities that do not have your businesses' best intentions at heart. 

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 5:52:15 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Has anyone used WinCDEnu?

Hi Jim

It's not quite clear to me how he uses this, but Windows 10 mounts an ISO file just by double-clicking it.

/gustav
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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sendt: 15. maj 2016 05:50:49
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: [dba-Tech] Has anyone used WinCDEnu?

Here is an interesting application brought to my attention via my next door neighbour...he wanted my appraisal of this product. He needs to bit copy his music DVD (He makes his own music in his studio and sells it).  The application he wants to used is called WinCDEnu:
http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

If anyone has used this products or heard of a product that might be as good or better than WinCDEmu the information would be greatly appreciated. (He is current using Windows 7 but will be upgrading to Win10 soon.)

WinCDEmu currently only works on Windows versions without using an emulator or compatibility layer:
Microsoft Windows (incl. x64) 10/8.1/8/7/2008/Vista/2003/XP

Aside: The application is being built under the LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) so it does require it to be Open Source. For those interested the app source code can be retrieved from:
https://github.com/sysprogs/WinCDEmu/archive/master.zip

Jim

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