There is nothing about 'java' the language that did that; but it is very hard to deny that vulnerabilities in the implementation of support for embedded java applets have been a huge source of desktop infections. Adobe might be slightly worse; but that's damning by very faint praise.
I'll leave arguing about the merits of the language and the JVM to the experts; but applet support has, quite simply, been painfully unsuitable for use on anything except fully trusted, ideally internal, material more or less forever, and neither Sun nor Oracle ever got it up to snuff for use in a mostly-untrusted web browsing environment.
Oracle inherited it and has been scrambling ever since to patch vulnerabilities. Every release contains dozens of fixes.
Yet these websites choose not to for two reasons. The first is laziness.
No. Until now the percentage of ad blocker users were low. Web sites accepted that, saying that a non-paying user also has some benefit, namely he brings paying users. Today ad-blockers become so popular that the loss affects the bottom line. Moreover an ad-blocking user likely brings only other non-paying user, therefore he is a pure loss. I predict that within a year there will be serious changes and polite requests for ad-blockers to either subscribe or turn off ad-blockers become usual.
No. What will happen is people will stop visiting these websites if they can't block the ads. There's always other places to get the news, stories, etc.
Random untrusted executables are THE attack vector for malware.
Advertising that forces you to accept executables from a wide array of random untrusted sources are forcing you to completely forgo any sort of security precautions.
I've had colleagues taken out of action for days for browsing the wrong site with the wrong browser. This did not include any destinations that would be obviously suspicious.
The industry really only has itself to blame for escalating the abusiveness of advertising. They work hard to earn everyone's distrust and hate.They should spend some of that effort on being less obnoxious. They employ enough effort at psychological manipulation.
False. You can become infected by visiting a website where they have a compromised flash ad. You don't need to execute anything today. But at the same time your employees did visit websites that weren't mainstream. It's those websites that rely on ad revenue from agencies not on the most trusted list that get you infected.
We"re also living in a global market. Let's say the US banned strong encryption tomorrow. What's to stop someone in another country from posting the source code to a strong encryption scheme? How would you prevent people from downloading and using this? You'd need to implement a "Great US Firewall" and filter all encryption-related sites. Even if you were able to do this, all you'd wind up doing is making US businesses less secure than foreign businesses. More US business hackings would leave the (valid) impression that you should trust foreign companies over US-based ones and the economy would suffer.
Encryption opponents like to pretend like they can just have Congress pass a law and all that pesky encryption will vanish with no consequences. In reality, banning encryption would create a horrible mess for businesses and consumers.
What's stopping a smart person from growing up and writing their own cryptography method as well? All it takes is 1 person. They don't need to leverage current encryption at all. That's why the whole thing is pointless. They need to embrace the different encryption protocols and devise a way to crack them. Or understand there will be things they can't crack.
See as a tax paying American citizen I say they can, to paraphrase Star Wars, pass a law to a standing ovation that blatantly violates key elements of previously written law (while being silent as if it does not), but that doesn't mean its 'legal'.
In fact, regardless of what the un-elected justices have to say about the matter, as a citizen as far as I'm concerned the FISA/Patriot act/whatevers are themselves illegal.
And they DO need to abide by the 4th amendment.
And if they DONT want to abide by the 4th amendment then they'd better hurry up and collect all the guns because the fact that the 2nd amendment comes before the 4th amendment and after the 1st amendment seems to be no coincidence to me.
Amendments 1 through 5 are very clear:
1) I can say what I want
2) I can exercise self defense
3) keep your soldiers out of my life
4) keep your spies out of my life
5) keep your lawyers out of my life
Given the historical context they can be summed up as:
"Get off my lawn, government"
So if tyrants wish to violate previously written law, even if they do it unanimously in fashion of standing ovation, it is still illegal. It goes against the nature of the foundations of this nation and its basic laws. It goes against the very context and reasoning of why the constitution was written and why it was written the way it is.
Also since I'm at it, our president may be an expert on the constitution, but I do not think he is using that expert knowledge to enforce it. I think he is using that expert knowledge to subvert it. That is the fallacy behind 'I'm a constitutional professor' or whatever he has claimed and his crones have peddled.
The 1st amendment only says the government can't write laws to stop you saying what you want. It doesn't mean you can say whatever you want. Speaking or inciting violence/terrorist actions through your words violates the amendment.
Also don't forget about the HU series as well. HU-210 and JWH-018 were the primary chemicals in the "old" Spice before the DEA cracked down on HU-210. Spice was reformulated.
Several JWH chemicals were still available then for a while longer, then the DEA cracked down. Spice was reformulated again.
The Spice you, dear reader, probably read about in the news contained the chemicals from the AM series, and it sent people to the hospital. That time laws were made.
Horray big government! Sending people to the hospital and killing them and enriching drug lords (both the kinds with guns and the kinds with MDs) instead of just letting us have the perfectly safe plant for our own quiet enjoyment! The cannabis must flow!
Many of the chemicals in the designer drugs, spice are landing people in the hospital as well. The latest one, dubbed fruity pebbles is very dangerous. So there's definitely a precedent to prohibit the uncontrolled creation of cannabis like drugs.
So you're fine with the fact that Microsoft sent down an update, with no description appended to it, which bypasses your settings and downloads 6 GB of crap without telling you?
It only does this if you didn't configure your machine correctly.
Actually, Apple users DON'T tolerate it. You can trivially and easily turn off automatic updates on Apple, and they don't push patches with godawful numbers to dick around in the godawful registry to unset the godawful hex values you painstakingly set.
On Apple you tell it not to update and it doesn't.
Also even if Apple DID suck in this way, it's not a reason for Microsoft to suck in this way.
Instead Apple's IOS updates brick your machine, disable your 4g wireless calls until reverted, replace your google maps with one that drives you into a canyon, and turns on shit like "receive calls only from favorites" when you have no favorites selected.
Unless your IT department didn't bother doing their job you're not being cajoled into anything right now. Computers registered on a domain are not subject to the same update policies as standalone, personal PCs. As for the ${x}00K cost to upgrade your legacy software, you're going to have to eat it some time within the next four years...
Unless your IT department didn't bother doing their job you're not being cajoled into anything right now. Computers registered on a domain are not subject to the same update policies as standalone, personal PCs. As for the ${x}00K cost to upgrade your legacy software, you're going to have to eat it some time within the next four years...
So, should we surrender the four years that we paid for to be hip and with the times? Or should we save our money and then spend the next four years migrating to an OS that doesn't forcefully seize control of our computers?
No. Your IT department should've done their job and disabled the update. We have 120k users, close to 200k machines and it took one 1 update behind the scenes to stop this upgrade across our company.
Big pharma lobbied for legal immunity against any vaccine damage claims decades ago. Claiming they don't have time to fight lawsuits since they are too busy "saving the world". I'll start using vaccines when they are able to actually take responsibilities of their own products.
The only thing it protects them against is the lawyers in this country. Without this every single scientist would be subpoena'd and dragged through court each and every time someone had a fever from a vaccine.
Believing that a vaccine is by nature safe. This article makes it out like it's ridiculous to believe that a vaccine could have serious negative side effects. It's not; being a vaccine doesn't make anything safe. Yes, the data show that Gardasil isn't the cause of the various things some suspected of it. But that wasn't a foregone conclusion.
Everything has a chance to not be safe. It also sucks if you happen to be in the.001% that has some strange reaction and dies. But the same thing could happen after you eat a pop tart or drink milk. There's always a small chance that the air we breathe or the things we ingest could kill us that same day.
Refusing to vaccinate based on a.001% chance is pure stupidity.
This issue was bought up at Kiwicon a year ago. Some pen-tester showed that a majority of anti-virus software doesn't use ASLR. Furthermore, he shows buffer-overflows and other memory errors in most of their scanners! You could infect most systems with the right malformed PDF or JPEG. It just needed to be scanned. The scanners themselves often run as the system user!
Virus scanners are pretty much worse than useless. They're an attack vector.
Apparently that's been solved now which was the whole point of the article.
Malwarebytes has caught a number of things for me, including blocking things like OpenCandy from installing alongside certain programs I like. I've seen far less gain from installing different AV programs to work with it. Mostly they just slow down or break certain programs. Meh.
There will always be cases where another company will discover malware before the one you're currently using. 1 company has to always find it first and the others put out definitions to catch it after that.
You've accomplished nothing with a resignation, unless the person who fills the void is actually working towards your goals.
Wrong. This establishes precedent. If a young police officer, politician, or other elected leader just starting his or her career now understands that the threat of losing their job or entire career is now fucking real, they might think twice about their actions while in office.
Otherwise this is exactly the point of politicians - you've bought into the lie that one of them is better than another.
While this is true, I stand on my first point. Much like a Chicago police officer recently being charged with murder, this establishes precedent, and helps drive the point that law enforcement and our elected leaders are not untouchable, and can lose their jobs or careers like anyone else when they break the law.
And we need that precedent more than ever.
No it doesn't. It only means the next time someone screws up again then then the acting mayor resigns. It's a viscous circle which holds no one accountable. They get paid after resigning as well.
Um, domestic use without a warrant is in no fucking way acceptable. It's a fucking crime and deserves as diligent a prosecution as they make. Licensed, authorized professionals need to be held to a higher standard or suffer stricker punishments. For shit sakes, how hard would it be to have a judge bless it, less they're just fishing.
Before calling "black-ass" best make sure your's is clean.
Yes. Please waste time getting a warrant while the criminal hides their tracks and gets away.
In my case the Windows 10 disrupts or blocks a number of useful hacks that are used in games (Skyrim as example) like SKSE and the ENB Series. I understand that is an analog behavior of a virus (SKSE injects code on the Skyrim working memory), but in Windows 7 you have the option to authorize it while Windows 10 does not work or works erratically. Also, in my honest opinion the Windows 10 GUI is a total piece of shit but that's personal preference
Like the sibling, I would go with "Someone did this for them". The installation process asks questions throughout the install, before, during, and after. You cannot proceed with the install without answering the questions.
Absolutely. I found one of the neighbors in my house, who got past the security systems, deduced my passphrase, booted my computer and installed Windows 10.
Sounds legit!
So shill, why are you calling all of these people liars?
People fib all the time once they realize they made a poor decision. Maybe they were drunk? Not paying attention. How do you think Malware walks by people so easily? You're really giving people more credit than they deserve.
"Your" experience is second hand, and appears to be someone playing a practical joke upon a co-worker. The "reports of several people" seems dubious too.
I have my own direct experience of how the install works, I've done it twice. Given actual, first hand, experience of three machines - two installed, one not - given the fact millions of people would be protesting if there had ever been a period whereby Windows 10 "installed itself" without bringing up a single cancellable dialog, and given the severe legal situation Microsoft would be in if it ever tried to pull this stunt, I would seriously advice you to locate the practical joker in your office.
Oh, like the severe legal situation Microsoft would be in if they downloaded 12 GB (or however much it is) without asking the user? Or sending their personal information to 100+ domains without the ability to turn it off? Yeah, they admitted they were doing this and that too.
But keep telling yourself that there is a ghost that is floating to peoples' computers and maliciously installing operating systems on them. Microsoft already apologized two months ago for doing what you're denying is occurring.
Right, somebody broke into our locked office building just to maliciously update our OSes? It happened on her computer because her updates were set to "Install updated automatically (recommended)". Perhaps your settings are different. But lots of users have reported Windows 10 installing without any user interaction whatsoever.
The more likely story is this.
User thought it would be cool to upgrade and after it was complete realized many of your internal applications didn't run with the latest IE or web browser. So instead of admitting it they claim it automatically upgraded. 17 years in IT says they lied.
You're mistaken. My coworker came back from the weekend (this was in September I think) and found her Windows 7 Pro machine to have Windows 10 on it.
Why did your company not install the Windows 10 blocker? We pushed this to every machine, 125k end user pc's before the upgrades started happening. Also most Business PC's are not eligible for the upgrade per your corporate licensing so these companies should be taking action to prevent the upgrades.
By the time a case makes it to court, the damage is done. Your computer is "upgraded", Windows telemetry knows everything that is on your machine, and all your secrets are public. Not to mention, that half of your software no longer works, because of compatibility issues.
It gets harder and harder for me to understand why so many people stay on Microsoft operating systems.
No. This change is resuming the push of the OS to your system. Approximately 3 GB. It *does not* automatically execute the update.
Tried it, hated it, went back to 7 and MS is still nagging me to downgrade to windows 10 (10 is no upgrade). What's with TFS's "will resume"? They never stopped. I'd go Linux-only except all the magazines demand a Word file, and Oo and Lo can't save one properly.
It took me 30 seconds to google this. There's a registry setting to disable OS upgrades. Don't disgrace power users by being lazy.:)
http://www.howtogeek.com/22855...
None [of my Win 7 PCs] have forced it on to me. I just have to click decline every week or so
So the default is the upgrade and you must decline repeatedly to avoid it? And you find that perfectly acceptable ?
It is a pity that in being modded down as Troll (as you will be) you will slide down out of sight of many readers. It is a pity because to see an attitude like yours is itself an education in the strangeness of human nature. Unless of course you are trying to be funny.
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There is nothing about 'java' the language that did that; but it is very hard to deny that vulnerabilities in the implementation of support for embedded java applets have been a huge source of desktop infections. Adobe might be slightly worse; but that's damning by very faint praise. I'll leave arguing about the merits of the language and the JVM to the experts; but applet support has, quite simply, been painfully unsuitable for use on anything except fully trusted, ideally internal, material more or less forever, and neither Sun nor Oracle ever got it up to snuff for use in a mostly-untrusted web browsing environment.
Oracle inherited it and has been scrambling ever since to patch vulnerabilities. Every release contains dozens of fixes.
Yet these websites choose not to for two reasons. The first is laziness.
No. Until now the percentage of ad blocker users were low. Web sites accepted that, saying that a non-paying user also has some benefit, namely he brings paying users. Today ad-blockers become so popular that the loss affects the bottom line. Moreover an ad-blocking user likely brings only other non-paying user, therefore he is a pure loss. I predict that within a year there will be serious changes and polite requests for ad-blockers to either subscribe or turn off ad-blockers become usual.
No. What will happen is people will stop visiting these websites if they can't block the ads. There's always other places to get the news, stories, etc.
Random untrusted executables are THE attack vector for malware.
Advertising that forces you to accept executables from a wide array of random untrusted sources are forcing you to completely forgo any sort of security precautions.
I've had colleagues taken out of action for days for browsing the wrong site with the wrong browser. This did not include any destinations that would be obviously suspicious.
The industry really only has itself to blame for escalating the abusiveness of advertising. They work hard to earn everyone's distrust and hate.They should spend some of that effort on being less obnoxious. They employ enough effort at psychological manipulation.
False. You can become infected by visiting a website where they have a compromised flash ad. You don't need to execute anything today. But at the same time your employees did visit websites that weren't mainstream. It's those websites that rely on ad revenue from agencies not on the most trusted list that get you infected.
We"re also living in a global market. Let's say the US banned strong encryption tomorrow. What's to stop someone in another country from posting the source code to a strong encryption scheme? How would you prevent people from downloading and using this? You'd need to implement a "Great US Firewall" and filter all encryption-related sites. Even if you were able to do this, all you'd wind up doing is making US businesses less secure than foreign businesses. More US business hackings would leave the (valid) impression that you should trust foreign companies over US-based ones and the economy would suffer.
Encryption opponents like to pretend like they can just have Congress pass a law and all that pesky encryption will vanish with no consequences. In reality, banning encryption would create a horrible mess for businesses and consumers.
What's stopping a smart person from growing up and writing their own cryptography method as well? All it takes is 1 person. They don't need to leverage current encryption at all. That's why the whole thing is pointless. They need to embrace the different encryption protocols and devise a way to crack them. Or understand there will be things they can't crack.
See as a tax paying American citizen I say they can, to paraphrase Star Wars, pass a law to a standing ovation that blatantly violates key elements of previously written law (while being silent as if it does not), but that doesn't mean its 'legal'.
In fact, regardless of what the un-elected justices have to say about the matter, as a citizen as far as I'm concerned the FISA/Patriot act/whatevers are themselves illegal.
And they DO need to abide by the 4th amendment.
And if they DONT want to abide by the 4th amendment then they'd better hurry up and collect all the guns because the fact that the 2nd amendment comes before the 4th amendment and after the 1st amendment seems to be no coincidence to me.
Amendments 1 through 5 are very clear:
1) I can say what I want 2) I can exercise self defense 3) keep your soldiers out of my life 4) keep your spies out of my life 5) keep your lawyers out of my life
Given the historical context they can be summed up as: "Get off my lawn, government"
So if tyrants wish to violate previously written law, even if they do it unanimously in fashion of standing ovation, it is still illegal. It goes against the nature of the foundations of this nation and its basic laws. It goes against the very context and reasoning of why the constitution was written and why it was written the way it is.
Also since I'm at it, our president may be an expert on the constitution, but I do not think he is using that expert knowledge to enforce it. I think he is using that expert knowledge to subvert it. That is the fallacy behind 'I'm a constitutional professor' or whatever he has claimed and his crones have peddled.
The 1st amendment only says the government can't write laws to stop you saying what you want. It doesn't mean you can say whatever you want. Speaking or inciting violence/terrorist actions through your words violates the amendment.
Mod parent up please.
Also don't forget about the HU series as well. HU-210 and JWH-018 were the primary chemicals in the "old" Spice before the DEA cracked down on HU-210. Spice was reformulated.
Several JWH chemicals were still available then for a while longer, then the DEA cracked down. Spice was reformulated again.
The Spice you, dear reader, probably read about in the news contained the chemicals from the AM series, and it sent people to the hospital. That time laws were made.
Horray big government! Sending people to the hospital and killing them and enriching drug lords (both the kinds with guns and the kinds with MDs) instead of just letting us have the perfectly safe plant for our own quiet enjoyment! The cannabis must flow!
Many of the chemicals in the designer drugs, spice are landing people in the hospital as well. The latest one, dubbed fruity pebbles is very dangerous. So there's definitely a precedent to prohibit the uncontrolled creation of cannabis like drugs.
So you're fine with the fact that Microsoft sent down an update, with no description appended to it, which bypasses your settings and downloads 6 GB of crap without telling you?
It only does this if you didn't configure your machine correctly.
Actually, Apple users DON'T tolerate it. You can trivially and easily turn off automatic updates on Apple, and they don't push patches with godawful numbers to dick around in the godawful registry to unset the godawful hex values you painstakingly set.
On Apple you tell it not to update and it doesn't.
Also even if Apple DID suck in this way, it's not a reason for Microsoft to suck in this way.
Instead Apple's IOS updates brick your machine, disable your 4g wireless calls until reverted, replace your google maps with one that drives you into a canyon, and turns on shit like "receive calls only from favorites" when you have no favorites selected.
Unless your IT department didn't bother doing their job you're not being cajoled into anything right now. Computers registered on a domain are not subject to the same update policies as standalone, personal PCs. As for the ${x}00K cost to upgrade your legacy software, you're going to have to eat it some time within the next four years...
That's incorrect also.
Unless your IT department didn't bother doing their job you're not being cajoled into anything right now. Computers registered on a domain are not subject to the same update policies as standalone, personal PCs. As for the ${x}00K cost to upgrade your legacy software, you're going to have to eat it some time within the next four years...
So, should we surrender the four years that we paid for to be hip and with the times? Or should we save our money and then spend the next four years migrating to an OS that doesn't forcefully seize control of our computers?
No. Your IT department should've done their job and disabled the update. We have 120k users, close to 200k machines and it took one 1 update behind the scenes to stop this upgrade across our company.
Big pharma lobbied for legal immunity against any vaccine damage claims decades ago. Claiming they don't have time to fight lawsuits since they are too busy "saving the world". I'll start using vaccines when they are able to actually take responsibilities of their own products.
The only thing it protects them against is the lawyers in this country. Without this every single scientist would be subpoena'd and dragged through court each and every time someone had a fever from a vaccine.
Believing that a vaccine is by nature safe. This article makes it out like it's ridiculous to believe that a vaccine could have serious negative side effects. It's not; being a vaccine doesn't make anything safe. Yes, the data show that Gardasil isn't the cause of the various things some suspected of it. But that wasn't a foregone conclusion.
Everything has a chance to not be safe. It also sucks if you happen to be in the .001% that has some strange reaction and dies. But the same thing could happen after you eat a pop tart or drink milk. There's always a small chance that the air we breathe or the things we ingest could kill us that same day.
Refusing to vaccinate based on a .001% chance is pure stupidity.
This issue was bought up at Kiwicon a year ago. Some pen-tester showed that a majority of anti-virus software doesn't use ASLR. Furthermore, he shows buffer-overflows and other memory errors in most of their scanners! You could infect most systems with the right malformed PDF or JPEG. It just needed to be scanned. The scanners themselves often run as the system user!
Virus scanners are pretty much worse than useless. They're an attack vector.
Apparently that's been solved now which was the whole point of the article.
Do people really still run this shit?
Malwarebytes has caught a number of things for me, including blocking things like OpenCandy from installing alongside certain programs I like. I've seen far less gain from installing different AV programs to work with it. Mostly they just slow down or break certain programs. Meh.
There will always be cases where another company will discover malware before the one you're currently using. 1 company has to always find it first and the others put out definitions to catch it after that.
You've accomplished nothing with a resignation, unless the person who fills the void is actually working towards your goals.
Wrong. This establishes precedent. If a young police officer, politician, or other elected leader just starting his or her career now understands that the threat of losing their job or entire career is now fucking real, they might think twice about their actions while in office.
Otherwise this is exactly the point of politicians - you've bought into the lie that one of them is better than another.
While this is true, I stand on my first point. Much like a Chicago police officer recently being charged with murder, this establishes precedent, and helps drive the point that law enforcement and our elected leaders are not untouchable, and can lose their jobs or careers like anyone else when they break the law.
And we need that precedent more than ever.
No it doesn't. It only means the next time someone screws up again then then the acting mayor resigns. It's a viscous circle which holds no one accountable. They get paid after resigning as well.
' there's a degree of aceptableness. '
Um, domestic use without a warrant is in no fucking way acceptable. It's a fucking crime and deserves as diligent a prosecution as they make. Licensed, authorized professionals need to be held to a higher standard or suffer stricker punishments. For shit sakes, how hard would it be to have a judge bless it, less they're just fishing.
Before calling "black-ass" best make sure your's is clean.
Yes. Please waste time getting a warrant while the criminal hides their tracks and gets away.
Just because a EULA says something doesn't mean that it is legally enforceable.
EULA's have been enforced in courts many times. It's a fairy tale to believe it's not enforceable.
In my case the Windows 10 disrupts or blocks a number of useful hacks that are used in games (Skyrim as example) like SKSE and the ENB Series. I understand that is an analog behavior of a virus (SKSE injects code on the Skyrim working memory), but in Windows 7 you have the option to authorize it while Windows 10 does not work or works erratically. Also, in my honest opinion the Windows 10 GUI is a total piece of shit but that's personal preference
http://www.softwareok.com/?sei...
Like the sibling, I would go with "Someone did this for them". The installation process asks questions throughout the install, before, during, and after. You cannot proceed with the install without answering the questions.
Absolutely. I found one of the neighbors in my house, who got past the security systems, deduced my passphrase, booted my computer and installed Windows 10.
Sounds legit!
So shill, why are you calling all of these people liars?
People fib all the time once they realize they made a poor decision. Maybe they were drunk? Not paying attention. How do you think Malware walks by people so easily? You're really giving people more credit than they deserve.
"Your" experience is second hand, and appears to be someone playing a practical joke upon a co-worker. The "reports of several people" seems dubious too.
I have my own direct experience of how the install works, I've done it twice. Given actual, first hand, experience of three machines - two installed, one not - given the fact millions of people would be protesting if there had ever been a period whereby Windows 10 "installed itself" without bringing up a single cancellable dialog, and given the severe legal situation Microsoft would be in if it ever tried to pull this stunt, I would seriously advice you to locate the practical joker in your office.
Oh, like the severe legal situation Microsoft would be in if they downloaded 12 GB (or however much it is) without asking the user? Or sending their personal information to 100+ domains without the ability to turn it off? Yeah, they admitted they were doing this and that too. But keep telling yourself that there is a ghost that is floating to peoples' computers and maliciously installing operating systems on them. Microsoft already apologized two months ago for doing what you're denying is occurring.
3GB.
Right, somebody broke into our locked office building just to maliciously update our OSes? It happened on her computer because her updates were set to "Install updated automatically (recommended)". Perhaps your settings are different. But lots of users have reported Windows 10 installing without any user interaction whatsoever.
The more likely story is this. User thought it would be cool to upgrade and after it was complete realized many of your internal applications didn't run with the latest IE or web browser. So instead of admitting it they claim it automatically upgraded. 17 years in IT says they lied.
You're mistaken. My coworker came back from the weekend (this was in September I think) and found her Windows 7 Pro machine to have Windows 10 on it.
Why did your company not install the Windows 10 blocker? We pushed this to every machine, 125k end user pc's before the upgrades started happening. Also most Business PC's are not eligible for the upgrade per your corporate licensing so these companies should be taking action to prevent the upgrades.
By the time a case makes it to court, the damage is done. Your computer is "upgraded", Windows telemetry knows everything that is on your machine, and all your secrets are public. Not to mention, that half of your software no longer works, because of compatibility issues.
It gets harder and harder for me to understand why so many people stay on Microsoft operating systems.
No. This change is resuming the push of the OS to your system. Approximately 3 GB. It *does not* automatically execute the update.
Tried it, hated it, went back to 7 and MS is still nagging me to downgrade to windows 10 (10 is no upgrade). What's with TFS's "will resume"? They never stopped. I'd go Linux-only except all the magazines demand a Word file, and Oo and Lo can't save one properly.
It took me 30 seconds to google this. There's a registry setting to disable OS upgrades. Don't disgrace power users by being lazy. :)
http://www.howtogeek.com/22855...
None [of my Win 7 PCs] have forced it on to me. I just have to click decline every week or so
So the default is the upgrade and you must decline repeatedly to avoid it? And you find that perfectly acceptable ? It is a pity that in being modded down as Troll (as you will be) you will slide down out of sight of many readers. It is a pity because to see an attitude like yours is itself an education in the strangeness of human nature. Unless of course you are trying to be funny.
You can also download a blocker from Microsoft.