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If you've been trying to keep Microsoft's forced updates and upgrades off your machine, your job just got harder. With KB 4056254, we now have a new Win10 Update Facilitation Service joining its comrade-in-arms Update Assistant V2 to ensure no patch gets blocked.
You can look at the new KB 4056254 Win10 Update Facilitation Service and the re-emergence of Win10 Update Assistant V2 from two different perspectives. On the one hand, you have those poor hapless Win10 users who accidentally munged Windows Update. On the other hand, you have folks with bazookas and flamethrowers who want to keep some semblance of control over updating their machines.
Both groups now face two different Microsoft initiatives to reset Windows Update.
[...] Seems, from April to June 2018, some savvy Win 10 users have found new ways to disable or block Windows Update. So, M$ has to come out with KB4056254 to "neutralize" their efforts. It's like a cat-and-mouse game.
Which seems to me like the core of the matter. It's not nice to mess with Mother Microsoft's patching schemes, so you're going to get a few new services running in the background to whop your system upside the head if you dare to block patches.
Sources:
Win10 Update Facilitation Service joins Update Assistant V2 to make sure you get patched | Computerworld
Watch out: Win10 Update Facilitation as a Service and a new push for the Update Assistant | AskWoody
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 23 2018, @08:49PM (1 child)
...we have people who run Linux or *BSD, with a Windows VM if necessary kept locked the hell down tight. Microsoft can eat the proverbial bag of dicks.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @11:11PM
This.
Last time I was forced to use Windows I installed it as a guest on a private virtual network with the host (Linux Mint), put a proxy on the host with a white list for www.google.com, configured the guest for the proxy and went to google. In a few hours Microsoft politely fills a proxy with the crap you need to filter, but in the end I didn't need to stop it from whitelisting, I just needed to consume the company's licensed office software (MS Office) and to let them pollute a browser I didn't care about for their groupware (GMail, Gdrive and Hangouts). All the real work was done with less untrustworthy tools (at far greater speeds, with far less resource consumption and no material cost).