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Click here to see what osppsvc is doing, and how to remove osppsvc.exe. OSPPSvc stands for Microsoft Office Software Protection Platform Service.
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So my OSSEC HIDS keeps firing a regular alert (level 13…which is HIGH) on a Windows 7 Home Premium x64 machine whenever a Office application is opened and Microsoft wants to verify I am licensed to use it using a continuously running back ground service called (osppsvc).
HIDS Alert:
So I can either turn off this rule in HIDS but since it’s a such a high level alert and generic trigger (Non standard syslog message) I’d rather not work with one hand tied behind my back. So I lxquick it ‘www.startpage.com'(google tracks my use and IP, so they can go to hades) and find the following from Microsoft :
“…communications from our users about their Office usage
profile, preferences, resource usage profile, and differing ways in utilizing the service
between Office and Windows.” So in other words, you use it to track what I use Office for, upload it to the mother ship (aka spy on me).
profile, preferences, resource usage profile, and differing ways in utilizing the service
between Office and Windows.” So in other words, you use it to track what I use Office for, upload it to the mother ship (aka spy on me).
So no way to turn this bloatware off unless you don’t use a KMS. Which I know from experience I am because I bought it for $10 from my employer ($10 is still way overpriced IMHO).
Will update once I find more information and play around with my firewall settings, etc. Damn you Microsoft!!!
Hi there!
I just found out that the Microsoft Software Protection Platform Service is using more than 50% of my processing power, sometimes, and if I disable it using Regedit, then changing the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicessppsvcStart' variable to '4' (in the image above I changed it to '3', just because it was the only way to have my windows working properly, and also Office 2016) to force that service not loading at all, I get the annoying message asking to activate Windows and, besides that, what's worse, I lose my Office 2016 entirely!!!
Does anybody know a way to circumvent that, so I don't use half of my processing power to defend Microsoft interests against my will, but stay able to use the operating system and MS-Office??
It is really annoying, because the computer runs much faster when I disable that sh*t!!! Funny enough, it seems that nobody seems to have posted on the topic, I see people complaining about, then some 'dumb' solutions to 'make things a bit better', like checking if there is a problem updating etc. I don't want to make things a bit better, I want to get rid of MS DRM protection service for good and still be able to use my machine. Is that doable?
It is funny that crackers found ways to activate the software with that service running, but they did not look for ways to make us free from that undesirable 'feature'. Why is everybody so silent on the issue? I feel like I 'lost the bus' and nobody is letting me know what to do
I just found out that the Microsoft Software Protection Platform Service is using more than 50% of my processing power, sometimes, and if I disable it using Regedit, then changing the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicessppsvcStart' variable to '4' (in the image above I changed it to '3', just because it was the only way to have my windows working properly, and also Office 2016) to force that service not loading at all, I get the annoying message asking to activate Windows and, besides that, what's worse, I lose my Office 2016 entirely!!!
Does anybody know a way to circumvent that, so I don't use half of my processing power to defend Microsoft interests against my will, but stay able to use the operating system and MS-Office??
It is really annoying, because the computer runs much faster when I disable that sh*t!!! Funny enough, it seems that nobody seems to have posted on the topic, I see people complaining about, then some 'dumb' solutions to 'make things a bit better', like checking if there is a problem updating etc. I don't want to make things a bit better, I want to get rid of MS DRM protection service for good and still be able to use my machine. Is that doable?
It is funny that crackers found ways to activate the software with that service running, but they did not look for ways to make us free from that undesirable 'feature'. Why is everybody so silent on the issue? I feel like I 'lost the bus' and nobody is letting me know what to do
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