First Step Towards Windows 10 in Security Updates?

[owsf2000]

So, for Win7 and 8.1 users, Patch Tuesday brought some security updates for Internet Explorer. That patch apparently has a "trojan" update KB3146449, which is an advertisement generator for Windows 10 for when you open up a new tab.

Best be careful when applying the security updates going forward I guess.

Comments

[dmjewelle.livejournal.com]

MAN I love vetting each update because Microsoft wants to get super aggro in my face, good times! =_=b

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

*weary motherfucking sigh*

Yep. I just ran Windows Update and there sat KB3139929 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3139929). I ordinarily would have just let this install, had I not seen your post first, since it's supposed to be just security updates. But, sure enough, if you look at that page, one of the "nonsecurity-related fixes that are included in this security update" is KB3146449 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3146449), which "adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10." Granted, I haven't launched Internet Explorer in literally over a decade now, so I likely never would have seen this, but still, I plan to treat anything related to Windows 10 as malware at this point, no matter what it is and regardless if it would have ever actually affected me.

So, yes, I will now be vetting every fucking thing on Windows Update now, though I had been giving the so-called "security updates" a pass up until now, given that Micro$hit is pulling scuzzbucket tactics even with those now. It was only a matter of time, though, I guess.

Oh, and KB2952664 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2952664) and, of course, KB3035583 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583) were once fucking again unhidden and showing up in the "Optional" section as "Recommended" updates. Goddammit, Micro$hit, no means no.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I actually probably still will let the KB3139929 update install, whenever I bother to get around to letting any of the updates install, since it's just so tedious to update at all now. It's just that I would immediately go in and uninstall the KB3146449 bullshit after it completed.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, now I get why they embedded it in a security update along with a bunch of other (presumably actually useful) shit.

See, you apparently can't uninstall individual parts of the security update for IE. The KB3146449 update doesn't show up as an individual update in the installations window, but KB3139929 does. So, it seems you either get that whole security update for IE, or you get nothing. As such, they're probably banking on people being more leery of having IE without security updates than they are pissed off by the unwanted and unneeded Win10 malware tacked onto it.

However, that's not me. I'm uninstalling the whole damn update. And given that they'll probably start including this shit in every future security update for IE, I guess that means I simply won't be allowing security updates for IE anymore. Like I said, I don't use IE anyway, so hopefully that won't come back to bite me in the ass. In any case, that's still some serious fucking dogshit on Micro$hit's part, right there.

(EDIT) And... now it's gone off of my laptop as well, since I'd already updated that earlier today, a few hours before I saw your post. (/EDIT)

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Might want to keep an eye on Critical Updates (http://news.slashdot.org/story/16/03/12/1634229/windows-10-upgrade-reportedly-starting-automatically-on-windows-7-pcs#comments) as well if you're still giving them a full pass.

According to some of the comments under here it looks like the reason for this latest upgrading is a patch being upgraded to critical. If that's true, you'd have to wonder if that was "accidental" or not.

"Your guess was correct. Windows 7 Pro not on a domain. Looks like the update was changed to critical and that's why it was automatic."

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

There shouldn't be anything at all starting automatically on my comp, since I have it set to "check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them." I would recommend that everyone use these settings on their Windows Update, if they aren't already, due to all these scumshit tactics Microsoft are using.

(The only bad thing, though, is that it doesn't seem to actually be doing the "check for updates" part of that anymore, either. I haven't gotten a single fucking notification that there have been any new updates available for several months now. Any and all Windows Update runs I've done lately have been purely manual. Not that that's a bad thing at all, mind you, and is, in fact, a good thing, what with everything that's been happening lately. I only wish it was still telling me if there's something there to be gotten in the first place, though. Whether I actually install said things to be gotten is a whole other animal, of course, but I'd still like to know before wasting several minutes manually "checking for updates.")