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on Friday April 29 2016, @11:29PM
from the inconvenient-timing-for-a-new-os dept.
from the inconvenient-timing-for-a-new-os dept.
El Reg reports
Microsoft's relentless Windows 10 nagware has interrupted a live TV weather forecast, urging meteorologist Metinka Slater to upgrade.
The operating system suddenly popped up a box on screen insisting the station's computer be upgraded to the latest version--while Slater was on air describing thunderstorms rolling through Iowa, USA.
The cyber-badgering blatted over her doppler weather radar, which was being broadcast on KCCI 8 News [April 27].
"Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10. Gosh, what should I do?" Slater asked sarcastically.
So, do you know of a case of MSFT update pushiness that rivals this?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @03:54AM
You are aware that Never10 has only been available for a couple of weeks, yes? GWX Control Panel has been around a few weeks longer, but the point is, malware blockers for this particular series of unwanted software are relatively new. It's not inconceivable that the station's IT people haven't kept on top of the problem and recent solutions or had sufficient time to vet them.
This cannot be sufficiently emphasized. Microsoft's ongoing updating and re-enabling of the GWX malware where customers have found a way to disable it is reprehensible. Shoving it on to computers while hiding any option to dissent is just evil. Wasting bandwidth and disk storage pushing it onto systems on the slim chance a user might choose to accept the installation, or more likely, as has happened to too many people, in order to slip an installation acknowledgement past them, is despicable.
By rights, antivirus products -- Symantec, Trend Micro, ESET, AVG, Avira, etc. -- should detect and obliterate GWX as the malware it is. In my experience some of them are excessively zealous about blocking less-nefarious software (e.g. port scanners, key recovery tools, some hex editors); the least they could do is protect their customers against a legitimate PUP.