Karlston Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Microsoft is telling users that their admins are somehow guilty of blocking upgrades to their PCs Admins all over the world are waking up to an unwelcome development: Microsoft has snuck a Get Windows 10 malware variant onto their customers' systems. All signs point to an infected Patch Tuesday update -- above and beyond the Internet Explorer "security" patch with its own Windows 10 ad. I've seen three confirmed reports this morning -- with corroboration from Rod Trent on WindowsITPro and a burgeoning Reddit thread -- that domain-attached PCs with no admin rights, attached to the WSUS update server, are displaying the well-known Get Windows 10 icon in the system tray. If users click on the icon, they see a very disturbing ad: Must be those terrible system admins who are blocking your free upgrade to Win10 Your system administrator has blocked upgrades on this PC Check with your system administrator about upgrading this PC to Windows 10. Are you a system administrator? You can customize this app to get your organization upgraded to Windows 10. Find out how. One admin reports that some domain-attached VLC-licensed PCs installed KB 3035583 -- the widely reviled Get Windows 10 app -- months ago, but that the Get Windows 10 icon didn't appear until now. Another says that the crapware-hiding c:\windows\system32\GWX folder has appeared. The admins I know are livid. Microsoft's apparently trying to do an end run, telling users that their admins are somehow culpable for blocking upgrades to their PC. I haven't seen a definitive report on how the embarrassing nag appeared, but I do know the old instructions for disabling it are wrong. In January I talked about the correct registry settings, and Microsoft subsequently revised its description of the settings in KB 3080351. Whether the revised description is correct is anybody's guess. Regardless, the settings don't appear to have any effect on the Get Windows 10 nag that Microsoft documents for this week's Internet Explorer "security" patch, KB 3139929. That nag is supposed to be internal to IE11, which is a different animal altogether. Do you have any additional information on this "Your system administrator has blocked upgrades on this PC" name-and-shame game? If so, please post here or over on AskWoody.com. Source (InfoWorld - Woody Leonhard): Admins beware: Domain-attached PCs are sprouting Get Windows 10 ads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 LOL , this want effect home users very much as most dont use IE anyways and some businesses still never have upgraded to IE 11 yet due to the government websites have never updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Not sure what Microsoft has done, but received a call from my daughter, who left their Windows 7 computer on this morning when she left for work and when her husband got home this afternoon it had installed Windows 10 without anyone touching the system. He called me and we rolled it back and installed GWX Control Panel and then turned off the updates. This is getting crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 1 minute ago, straycat19 said: Not sure what Microsoft has done, but received a call from my daughter, who left their Windows 7 computer on this morning when she left for work and when her husband got home this afternoon it had installed Windows 10 without anyone touching the system. He called me and we rolled it back and installed GWX Control Panel and then turned off the updates. This is getting crazy. Mine didn't do nothing I dont have GWX installed to began with a and now im Blocking IE with a FW x86 x64 . Only systems I had to use GWX Control Panel were systems were people done those updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLONN7 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Soon we will hear from Microsoft executives : "We will tell everything to your mother, you goofball!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDX Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 33 minutes ago, straycat19 said: Not sure what Microsoft has done, but received a call from my daughter, who left their Windows 7 computer on this morning when she left for work and when her husband got home this afternoon it had installed Windows 10 without anyone touching the system. He called me and we rolled it back and installed GWX Control Panel and then turned off the updates. This is getting crazy. Wow, what a nightmare! Free update to the latest version of Windows. Damn you Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davmil Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 3 hours ago, straycat19 said: Not sure what Microsoft has done, but received a call from my daughter, who left their Windows 7 computer on this morning when she left for work and when her husband got home this afternoon it had installed Windows 10 without anyone touching the system. He called me and we rolled it back and installed GWX Control Panel and then turned off the updates. This is getting crazy. Wow! If that's really what happened... the balls! 4 hours ago, steven36 said: LOL , this want effect home users very much as most dont use IE anyways and some businesses still never have upgraded to IE 11 yet due to the government websites have never updated. hmmmm. Not sure I agree with "don't use iE" comment. My experience is, outside the techie community most folks do use IE, if only because it's just always been that way. Maybe we just swing in different groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 24 minutes ago, davmil said: Wow! If that's really what happened... the balls! hmmmm. Not sure I agree with "don't use iE" comment. My experience is, outside the techie community most folks do use IE, if only because it's just always been that way. Maybe we just swing in different groups. My mom is really a pc noob and she dont even use IE . But at work its a different story and seems this will help get business that require IE to update to it , but the fact is most government websites dont allow them to use IE 11 yet . It may backfire on Microsoft and they migrate to Chrome. It would be cheaper than buying windows 10 and training them to use it. Microsoft is trying there best to make 2016 the year of windows 10 . it shows how dumb business are most just paid to upgrade to windows 7 there really slow to adapt and to have to pay again so fast. If Microsoft will do it once they most likely will keep forcing upgrades on you and make you pay a annual fee . If you wanted to break the chains time to teach you're employes to use something that's not windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 4 hours ago, steven36 said: Only systems I had to use GWX Control Panel were systems were people done those updates. Once upon a time that would work. But now Microsoft have started sneakily (their standard modus operandi) adding their GWX bullsh*t to legitimate updates, so the only way to definitely avoid that crap is to not install their security updates. Detailed in an earlier post here... Security Update MS16-023 installs new “Get Windows 10” functionality The GWX Control Panel can give you the best of both worlds, letting you install updates AND keep the M$ Windows 10 promotion malware at bay. Sadly though, may not block it all now that that M$ started adding their adware garbage to applications like IE11. Wouldn't surprise me if one day after updates, your W7/8.1 desktop wallpaper, login screen, and all icons are changed to "promote" Windows 10. Microsoft, the company without ethics,morals, and scruples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 27 minutes ago, Karlston said: Once upon a time that would work. But now Microsoft have started sneakily (their standard modus operandi) adding their GWX bullsh*t to legitimate updates, so the only way to definitely avoid that crap is to not install their security updates. Detailed in an earlier post here... Security Update MS16-023 installs new “Get Windows 10” functionality The GWX Control Panel can give you the best of both worlds, letting you install updates AND keep the M$ Windows 10 promotion malware at bay. Sadly though, may not block it all now that that M$ started adding their adware garbage to applications like IE11. Wouldn't surprise me if one day after updates, your W7/8.1 desktop wallpaper, login screen, and all icons are changed to "promote" Windows 10. Microsoft, the company without ethics,morals, and scruples. I blocked IE with a firewall and disabled it and uninstalled that patch . If they want everyone to update so bad they should just come out and say were not going to update older windows anymore and make it a mandatory update . Microsoft should be ashamed putting ad generators in security updates for software people paid for that's about as low you can sink. Anyone after today says Microsoft cares about anything but themselves is just plain full of bull there just driving me closer to installing Linux on all my computers I'm beyond having to use Windows I just use because I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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