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No, sorry I don't believe so. The pc is not online and I plan on keeping it off line, I just do not want to see any type of communication going to or from it.
Let me try to explain the situation, I am a designer by hobby. I have been using PhotoShop about 5 years now, I have crafted my own technique to make today's "real D" 3D and numerous other types of textures.
A couple years ago i happened to notice no matter what I made I was seeing something just like it online, so naturally I assumed that hey someone else out there made the same exact thing as I did (since I did not upload it anywhere) and would go back to the drawing board. Everything I made ended up being used and SOLD online, no matter what I did; there it was not even slightly altered (color change, mask, filter applied etc..).
Now I naturally freaked out and assumed I was being hacked, went to several security forums and asked the experts. Ran every scan they referred me to and was told "you're not being hacked in order for someone to hack you they have to script a code explicitly for your computer."
Okay, yet everything I continued to make ended up being sold yet again in stock image sites, texture and textile sites. Now I started filming myself making my textures, I also started watching task manager and resource monitor like a hawk. I filmed tons of out going data while barely any incoming data. I was still convinced I was being hacked despite what these "experts" told me and I started tracking these IP addresses, Akamiatechnologies, Facebook, Amazonaws, Google, IOPricessLLC, LayerSoft Technologies and Microsoft of course. A few "private" networks that had no information other these started with 224 I believe. Anyway I have 500Gbs of video of these things including oddly enough printspooler sending out data (despite never having had a printer hooked up to the pc nor networked).
In all of these I had always seen NVidia's NVBackend uploading constantly but never really thought much of it. Again I went back to the forums asked everyone for help and was told not to worry about it. But my files were still ending up being used by other people! One day I turned on the pc (with the firewall on lock down) and opened up resource monitor and there was NVBackend sending data... Now this made me block it, in the firewall but still it was always there running and uploading (never downloading) but one day when I filmed it uploading over 3GBs from my pc in one sitting (about 20 minutes before I killed it) I started poking around and opening files. I followed the path to appdata\local\NvidiaCorporation\Backend and I started opening these files and reading. "Record" and "stream" every single thing, firefox, photoshop, my pictures, every single microsoft package all saying "begin record" and "stream" "packet sent" and so on.
I contacted Microsoft I actually emailed Bill gates, the CEO and the board of directors. After 5 emails to these people asking them for help I got a phone call from a gentleman that introduced himself as the "highest tier tech" 3 hours on the phone with him and he finally tells me this is "data collection" and there's nothing that can be done to stop it!
So I decided I would stop it; I purchased this laptop and unplugged the desktop thinking this would give me freedom. But it didn't stop my files from getting out, I started looking at the background tasks like "microsoft phone" launching and disappearing. Started killing things like "remote access connection manager" and "telephony" disabling the services numerous times a day but they would only launch again. 14 months later convinced it was Nvidia doing these things (not that they weren't, I do have their files that show this) I purchased an AMD graphics card did YET ANOTHER CLEAN install. Created 6,000 new files between March 27 and April 8... And my latest designs are being sold on Daz3d right now. Obviously I did not stop it and apparently as the local police department told me "as long as they say they collect data they can collect anything they want." I guess this means by any means they please.
Funny they tell us that if we alter or redistribute their "intellectual property" they can press charges on us or sue us... But no one wants to stop them from taking ours.