Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:31AM from the just-a-friendly-reminder dept.

jones_supa writes: Microsoft has been very aggressive on getting Windows 7 and 8 users to upgrade to Windows 10. The company has introduced a "Get Windows 10" system tray icon, moved the upgrade to "recommended" category in Windows Update, and even initiated the OS download automatically. The latest trick is almost comical: KB3139929 is an actual security update for Internet Explorer, but it also deploys a trojan horse, KB3146449, which is an advertisement generator for Internet Explorer. On computers not joined to a domain, it adds a blue banner when a user opens a new tab, saying "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10".

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Re:Time for Linux by Archtech · 2016-03-10 04:52 · Score: 3, Funny

All of this underhanded nagging to upgrade really aggravates me to the point that I'm now willing to investigate using an alternate OS.
Good Job Microsoft!
Well, at least they got you to change operating system...!

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Re:If you are using IE, that's what you get by jones_supa · 2016-03-10 05:03 · Score: 3, Funny

More eyeballs looking at the code.
Re:If you are using IE, that's what you get by ilsaloving · 2016-03-10 05:23 · Score: 1, Funny

If this comment wasn't so blatantly homophobic, I'd give it a solid golf clap.