Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening
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Remember when Microsoft was trying really hard to push Windows 10 on everyone. There was this program called GWX that would get installed and nag you (and sometimes just go ahead and install Windows 10 if you weren't paying attention). I deleted the GWX program whenever I found it on one of my computers.
Supposedly, Microsoft put a stop to the nagging and stealth upgrading this past summer when the "Windows 10 is free for one year" program ended.
Back in July, my desktop computer died. I was busy so I just grabbed my old laptop, plugged in the monitor and keyboard from my desktop and kept working. Last month I finally got around to building a new computer and put the laptop back in my recording studio.
Yesterday, I was in the studio and suddenly the firewall pops up a notification that GWX is trying to open an outgoing connection.
I know for certain that GWX wasn't on there a few days ago. It could have only gotten on there through another one of their sneaky Windows Update shenanigans.
Jeez Microsoft. Take a hint already.
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
Jeez Microsoft. Take a hint already.
Or, possibly, a class-action lawsuit, because how is this in any way distinguishable from malware?
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
Yesterday, I was in the studio and suddenly the firewall pops up a notification that GWX is trying to open an outgoing connection.
GWX Control Panel still works AFAIK.
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@flabdablet said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
Yesterday, I was in the studio and suddenly the firewall pops up a notification that GWX is trying to open an outgoing connection.
GWX Control Panel still works AFAIK.
But does Windows still pay attention to it?
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@flabdablet said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
Yesterday, I was in the studio and suddenly the firewall pops up a notification that GWX is trying to open an outgoing connection.
GWX Control Panel still works AFAIK.
Right. But GWX wasn't on the computer a few days earlier. And Microsoft had, supposedly, stopped pushing ir a few months ago.
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
@flabdablet said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
Yesterday, I was in the studio and suddenly the firewall pops up a notification that GWX is trying to open an outgoing connection.
GWX Control Panel still works AFAIK.
Right. But GWX wasn't on the computer a few days earlier. And Microsoft had, supposedly, stopped pushing ir a few months ago.
Oh, it's probably just catching up on updates is all.
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Microsoft 2 - The
SickeningQuickeningAwakening!Or did you mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_d2IUF-pM
After all, clearly they are powerful in the Dark Side.
Filed Under: Finally watched that last night. Not quite as good as I was hoping for, but better than I was expecting.
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Does It Again - Part 2 - The Awakening:
supposedly
WELL
THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM
