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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: 3, Touché) by frojack on Saturday June 23 2018, @09:35PM (5 children)
You mean there are people who actually CALL Microsoft still?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @11:46PM (2 children)
I've had lots of calls "from Microsoft" telling me they have detected malware on my machine. Microsoft seems to employ a lot of technicians who barely (or don't) speak conversational English.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday June 24 2018, @12:57AM (1 child)
I don't have Microsoft. Because I don't have computer. But I got that call too. And I said to the guy, "This is Donald J. Trump. Is this Bill Gates?" Because I've been wanting to talk to Bill about closing up that Internet. The guy says "no, this isn't Bill Gates. I'm calling from Windows." Not Microsoft. And he asked me to turn my computer on. So I go, "maybe you have the wrong number. Or maybe you want my son. Because I don't have computer." Barron is 12, he's amazing with computer. And with every kind of cyber. So I say to him, it's the guy from Windows, do you want to talk to him? And he shakes his head, he told me that was a Fake call. So watch out!!!
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:23AM
Just hope those aerospace contractors who control your "big guns" don't rely on this kind of business model.
You may only think you control them. Until you need them.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 4, Funny) by RS3 on Saturday June 23 2018, @11:48PM
They come hoping for help, they stay for the awesome hold music.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:08AM
Yes, there are people who call Microsoft. People with corporate support. Even they generally regret doing so one way or another. Even if Microsoft do help it is only for their benefit. Your problem may be solved but there is always another problem.