The problem is affecting domain-attached Windows 7 PCs not signed up to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for patches and updates, but looking for a Microsoft update instead.
The upshot is PCs, ranging from 10s to hundreds at a time, simultaneously chowing down on the 3GB-plus Windows 10 load, killing business networks.
[...] And it’s all happening despite Microsoft promising – here – that it wouldn’t.
[...] Users have logged urgent enquiries with Microsoft’s helpdesk but in the meantime have resorted to triage to stop the problem.
That means blocking traffic at the firewall stage that would normally have gone to Microsoft Update. Another option is to switch settings to the WSUS server.
Any Soylentils run into this problem? What have you done to cope with it?
(Score: 4, Informative) by NezSez on Saturday August 08 2015, @01:29PM
Corporate botnets are apparently good because they "improve services" by exposing your personal data.
The windows 10 EULA (as the windows8 EULA and maybe previous versions as well) states that you are not buying the software but purchasing a right to use the software.
So you pay them to let them use the hardware and network services you paid for so they can cash in on sharing your personal data.
In return you get to watch pointless videos in your spare time, and software that will screw up even the best planned services when you actually need them :)
windows-10-to-support-peer-to-peer-downloading-of-apps-and-updates [arstechnica.com]
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-privacy-statement [microsoft.com]
and further down the document this gem:
and:
and:
No Sig to see here, move along, move along...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:13PM
"The windows 10 EULA (as the windows8 EULA and maybe previous versions as well) states that you are not buying the software but purchasing a right to use the software. "
That's what basically every software EULA ever said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @05:35PM
And they'd all be null and void in any sane legal system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @06:35PM
How can I immigrate to this sane country?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 08 2015, @06:40PM
Thanks for posting that. I've been on linux exclusively for 16-17 years and generally don't have a good impression of Microsoft, but those terms surprised even me. They're outrageous. Is it that people aren't generally aware how draconian they are?
They may as well have printed the following:
"Microsoft reserves the right to endlessly fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you..."
Washington DC delenda est.