06-28-2016, 02:21 PM
(06-28-2016, 01:33 PM)Rahizel Wrote:(06-28-2016, 01:01 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: GWX is basically malware pushed through Windows Update to force people to upgrade to Windows 10.You were never actually asked if you wanted it.
You can stop it completely from being installed by blacklisting like 6 different updates that all contain it. In addition those same updates also backport Windows 10 privacy intrusions onto Windows 7 and 8, so they should be blocked regardless.
I refuse to update my stuff to Windows 10. Its a shame about that privacy hole, because Windows 10 really is a nice OS. But I am NOT OK with Microsoft feeling the need to help themselves to my stuff and not being able to turn that off without straight up sabotaging several of the OS's features. My computer has proprietary information on it related to my work, and my inventions, that is not to be seen by anybody but me without a court order to reveal it. How dare they think they can just take a look behind my back.
It downloads 6 gb of stuff to preload it too.
Actively prevents being disabled unless its from another program.
And it classifies as PUP.
You decide if it's malware.
No, you were asked. Repeatedly. Using annoying popup nagscreens and ads. When that alone wasn't enough, Microsoft started resorting to misleading controls and intentionally defying their own convention to trick people into updating. Because clearly the experts at microsoft know better than everyone else in the world how to use their product and which version is the best.
Someone won a lawsuit against Microsoft recently wherein the misleading GWX stuff tricked them into upgrading when they didn't want to, and that upgrade broke the software they were using to run their travel agency, leading to nearly $20,000 in lost sales. Microsoft actually had to pay them damages, and I hope a flood of court cases follow for the same sorts of things.
But the court case I really want to see is concerning the privacy matters. Because marketting or not Microsoft has no right to touch my stuff.
Feel free to PM me if anything is broken