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Following my phone and laptop being taken over by AN Other a couple of years ago, despite security precautions since then, I began to feel that my laptop was again at times being interfered with, especially when using my Facebook account. I would type something and then look at the screen and it was all mixed up spaces where there should not be and no spaces where there should. so I decided to take a look at my local DNS file. To be honest it did not make any sense to me at all, as my version of Win10 is the basic version however the very first entry on the file was:-
Windows IP Configuration
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
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No records of type AAAA
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
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Record Name . . . . . : vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 90399
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 127.0.0.1
watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
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No records of type AAAA
watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
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Record Name . . . . . : watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 90399
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 127.0.0.1
vortex.data.microsoft.com
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No records of type AAAA
No records for type AAAA simply means IPV6 is disabled as I have found that to be a source of infiltration previously although it seems impossible to block IPV6 on my Android phone. I was not however aware I was using a sandbox
Looking on the internet I found a few sites that advised me of how to flush the DNS on Win10. This being one of the many. It is a practice I used to do on WinXP win2K and Vista previously but for some reason I stopped the practice. I looked into what the downside would be to doing this procedure on Win10, which was mainly just slow connections to website I frequently use as the local record needs to rebuild. So I decided to flush the cache and immediately upon rebooting, my Facebook landing page changed to a modern clean looking one as below.
The laptop seems to be behaving itself now and my typing, as in this post for example had only two typos as opposed to the dozen per line I was experiencing previously.
Whilst I am not prepared to debate the Win/Linux issue having used both for many years, or the efficacy of using FB, we have done them both to death previously, I was wondering if anyone else was prepared to admit they had ever had similar issues.
Windows IP Configuration
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
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No records of type AAAA
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
----------------------------------------
Record Name . . . . . : vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 90399
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 127.0.0.1
watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
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No records of type AAAA
watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
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Record Name . . . . . : watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 90399
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 127.0.0.1
vortex.data.microsoft.com
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No records of type AAAA
No records for type AAAA simply means IPV6 is disabled as I have found that to be a source of infiltration previously although it seems impossible to block IPV6 on my Android phone. I was not however aware I was using a sandbox
Looking on the internet I found a few sites that advised me of how to flush the DNS on Win10. This being one of the many. It is a practice I used to do on WinXP win2K and Vista previously but for some reason I stopped the practice. I looked into what the downside would be to doing this procedure on Win10, which was mainly just slow connections to website I frequently use as the local record needs to rebuild. So I decided to flush the cache and immediately upon rebooting, my Facebook landing page changed to a modern clean looking one as below.
The laptop seems to be behaving itself now and my typing, as in this post for example had only two typos as opposed to the dozen per line I was experiencing previously.
Whilst I am not prepared to debate the Win/Linux issue having used both for many years, or the efficacy of using FB, we have done them both to death previously, I was wondering if anyone else was prepared to admit they had ever had similar issues.