re: your privacy concern - if that is the concern why did you mention the SSLv2 stuff at all? Although I really don't like smart-screen filter there are really only two ways this could work - Win8 downloads a big white/black list every night, or it checks each time an .exe is launched. I don't think it is particularly shocking that it does the latter.
Microsoft already gathers lots of information from customer experience improvement data and crash dumps and stuff like that, and goes to tremendous efforts to ensure that it is never traceable back to an individual. I don't know for sure but I'd be surprised if the same policies were not in play here also.
Microsoft already gathers lots of information from customer experience improvement data and crash dumps and stuff like that, and goes to tremendous efforts to ensure that it is never traceable back to an individual. I don't know for sure but I'd be surprised if the same policies were not in play here also.