Virustotal reveals the MS telemetry bribed vendors

[jult]

These are the 20 of the 71 'virus' scanners that flag this tool as 'something we should not be using' (putting it politely..)..

[Greedeks]

@jult a false positive occurs for all programs without a certificate. I initiated a discussion on this subject, which is still ongoing. In short, this is not merely a script but a fully-fledged program that obtains privileges similar to nsudo. Additionally, there is an action that builds a test release directly from GitHub, ensuring its safety and full code transparency.

[jult]

Yes, I know. I found it remarkable from processing the executable through virustotal how one can clearly see which vendors are 'not happy' about telemetry and other surveillance/Windows features being changed (or disabled) by a tool. I'm not complaining, these are the obvious parties you shouldn't even trust, like Google and Microsoft themselves..

As someone working in IT since the 1980s I'm familiar with these kinds of false positives, and wanted to make this public here, so people realize: I've been using tools like this (and like 'Optimizer' and many others like this) and there's literally nothing harmful about them, especially not if you know what you're changing about your Windows OS install. Also, easily reversed. So;

for the readers here: Do not worry, it's safe to use this tool. It's not a 'trojan' or 'malicious'. It merely switches off malicious behavior by big corporations like Microsoft and Google. Behavior these corporations really do not want you to disable or change.