If you have Windows 8, do not install anything without a license

Nadim Kobeissi, an independent Canadian developer, recognized the existence of at least questionable function of Windows 8. This allows the operating system to notify Microsoft every time the user installs a new application.

This process isolates using SmartScreen function that provides the full details to Microsoft about your installed applications. Obviously, the accusations about privacy violations and data collection appeared. And this time for good reason.

Microsoft has responded to the accusations, saying it is a function that protect users from malware.


Moreover, according to several experts who reviewed the application, it seems more checking the legitimacy of installed programs on the operating system than the risk it poses to the system, concluding that it would be a tool to collect data and to hold liability a user which uses, for example, pirated software, without knowing that it is followed.