Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert

An anonymous reader writes: For this December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released twelve security bulletins, eight of which have been rated critical. Those refer to the cumulative security updates for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, JScript and VBScript, and updates for Microsoft Windows DNS, Microsoft Graphics Component, Silverlight, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Uniscribe. Microsoft also released a security advisory announcing the removal of a digital certificate from the Certificate Trust list (CTL).

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KB3112343

[Anonymous Coward]

Warning, they are trying to sneak in yet another update to chuck Windows 10 down your throat. KB3112343 enables support for additional upgrade scenarios from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

Re:KB3112343

[hairyfeet]

Well lucky for me and my customers I didn't see that one thanks to GWX Control Panel which I HIGHLY recommend, it allows you to set customers updates back to automatic without worry about getting "Win 10'd" as it kills Windows upgrades dead WITHOUT touching the critical security patches that aren't backdoor attempts at "Win 10'ing" the system.

BTW for those that need a very easy and simple way to remove all that backported telemetry shit (funny they can't backport DX12 but they can all the Win 10 spyware) here is a handy .BAT file that wiull scan for any of the telemetry or Win 10 shit and remove it. Its updated every month to keep up with the MSFT bullshit parade so just grab a new copy about a week after patch Tuesday and you're golden.

Its fucking sad that they took what COULD have been a good OS and filled it so damned full of malware that we have to treat Windows Update as a malware vector and I really hope they get sued for this shit. I can't believe I'm saying this but....can we have Ballmer back? At least all he was doing was trying to (poorly) ape Apple and with something like Classic Shell it was easy enough to just remove the candyfloss, but I have yet to see anybody be able to show with a traffic analysis a way to 100% kill the spyware in Windows 10. Its so nasty I'm having to...gag, wretch...recommend Windows 8 as at least you can get it cheap, upgrade to 8.1, then get the GUI back with Classic Shell and use the .BAT to kill the spying, with Windows 10 its so baked in I seriously doubt anybody is gonna be able to wrench it out and leave a functional OS.