

It lists the program's name and path, the number of connections of the session and the total number of connections, and time and date of the last and initial connection.Ī history is provided which you can access to see detailed information about each connection that include the remote IP and port, bytes in and out, and time and date. The software lists all programs that have created connections to the Internet while it was running in the background. The program displays core information in a dashboard on start which highlight allowed and blocked connections and programs, as well as how many sites you encountered that used Canvas Fingerprinting. It goes beyond notifications though which you will notice once you click your way through the interface. Those are the three core features currently. Third-party Flash cookies that got saved to your system (not in Beta yet).Which domains that you have accessed have used fingerprinting.Which programs connect to the Internet.It monitors the system and informs you about the following in its dashboard: WinPrivacy runs in the background as a service while you are using the computer. While you could assume that it is a CCleaner type of application, it is in fact complementary to the program as it concentrates on other privacy related issues. It has been designed to improve user privacy on the Internet in numerous ways. See google search hits,, care should obviously be taken on the source you choose, it has to be reputable.The program, just like WinPatrol, is not free but commercial. There are two reasons for this, 1) you aren't going through windows update with all its issue and 2) you then have a copy of SP2 if you ever need to reinstall your OS you don't have to download it again. You may be better off trying to find a means of downloading the SP2 Update as a separate download and not do it through windows update. But, I personally wouldn't like to do that (pause avasts protection), certainly not for downloading XP SP2 update as that can be up to 266Mb in size.

You could try pausing the standard shield and possible web shield and at least see if it starts or you get an error, this would confirm that it isn't avast and then stop the update to start avast again.

I like Tech don't believe it necessary and haven't done so in the past with WU, now however I tend to download the patches myself and install them.
