Why does Microsoft want to force Windows 10 on everyone?
An urgent WARNING! (Click to read it below.)
The reason is so obvious that only few ill see it… as the saying goes: hidden in plain sight – in the service of N*S*A, i.e., of general surveillance and control.
Until now we always had to pay for a new version, and now we will get it for free? Such “generosity” is already suspicious…
Thus very many computers that now run Windows 7 or 8 will from July 29 on be upgraded to Windows 10 without asking. This happens if the following update is installed that is offered since the beginning of July and has been installed (smuggled in) automatically for many users: KB3035583, first offered as optional but now declared to be “important”. In that case your Windows will be automatically upgraded to Windows 10 on July 29, 2015, or soon after. If you do not want that, you need to uninstall that update in time (it could now already be too late for some).
You should, furthermore, delete (if installed): KB2990214 and KB3014460. They are in some sense predecessors to that update. Undesired in this context are in Windows 7 also KB2952664 und KB3021917, in Windows 8: KB2976978 and KB3044374.
A WARNING ABOUT MS UPDATES FOR WINDOWS 10. Windows 10 Is Malware; Deletes Usersʼ Programs.
Summary of updates you should not have:
KB3035583
KB2952664
KB2990214
KB3021917
and furthermore (according to the
warning above):
KB2977759 (improves "upgrading experience")
KB2996978 (no description found)
KB3022345 (introduces the Diagnostics and Telemetry tracking service to
in-market devices, adds benefits from the latest version of Windows to systems
that have not yet been upgraded)
KB3044374 (Update that enables you to upgrade
from Windows 8.1 to a later version of Windows)
KB3068708 (introduces the Diagnostics and
Telemetry tracking service to in-market devices, adds benefits from the latest
version of Windows to systems that have not yet been upgraded)
KB2966583: An update to improve the Update Readiness Tool so that it can be executed without user interaction.
KB3075249 and KB3080149 relate too telemetry (spying pathway) and should also be removed. if installed.
September 15, 2015, some extra updates came out that I will not install:
KB2999116 Windows 10 universal C Runtime in Windows 7
KB3079821 enables Windows 7 to activate Windows 10
KB3080079 supports a TLS function that I will hardly need
KB3083324 installs a new update client in Windows 7 (possibly to ease certain unwanted updates)
KB3083710 new update client - see above
October 19, 2015, some more extra updates came out that I will not install:
KB3081954 prepares for upgrade to Windows 10 and adds telemetry
KB3095649 actually for Windows 8 and not needed for Windows 7
November 3, 2015
KB3102810 Aids upgrade to Windows 10.
Does MS now bring sneak-updates in the second half of the month that do not serve security, but rather surveillance and preparation for Windows 10?
Windows 10 will be FORCED on you in 2016!!! Beginning in 2016, included in a security patch which you’ll need for your security, will also be a trigger to download and begin installing the Windows 10 upgrade. As it was said in the post, CISA is a Surveillance Bill to Spy on You, Not a Security Bill, the entire premise of the bill is to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision to stop domestic snooping by the NSA. The bill makes it so that the NSA does not do the snooping. It’s all done by private companies who then turn the information all over to the NSA. Windows 10 Is Full Blown Electronic Tyranny. Microsoft’s Windows 10 is preparing to automatically download onto computers currently installed with Windows 7 or 8 – without the computer users’ knowledge, London’s Guardian reported. According to the report, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will become a “recommended update” in 2016, and anyone who has automatic updates activated will have the new program installed automatically on their PC. After it has downloaded, the Windows 10 installer will begin. At that point, users will need to actively cancel Windows 10. (From All Windows Users Have Required Windows 10 Upgrade Patch Coming.)
Microsoft Makes Windows 10 Upgrades Automatic For Windows 7 And Windows 8 - includes “Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped.” Microsoft ʽAccidentʼ Forces Windows 10 Onto Windows 7, Windows 8. Updates are intended for correcting functional problems and close “loop-holes” in the software. But, theoretically, MS could actually use an update to create a loophole for sneaking something in.
Never install an update related to telemetry! Maybe better to not update at all from now on!
You may also try a tool that removes KB3035583 from your computer (f it is there): I don't want windows 10.
And how do you do that? See here. When Programs and Features are showing View installed updates you can enter KB3035583 in the search field up to the right. If it is installed, it will be shown. In that case, right-click on it and you can remove it. Then check for the other updates the same way.
Primary surveillance functions are (and they are probably not all):
• Information about your device and application.
• Collect information about voice input features like speech-to-text.
• Information about the opening of a file, information about the file itself, the application used to open the file, and how long it takes.
• Information about when you enter a text, they may collect typed characters (key logging).
See Windows 10 and Privacy, an extensive overview of what you have to do in Windows 10 to at least stop a lot of its spying. Here is an application that can do much of it for you, but beware: It may to install adware if you are not careful to prevent that. Here is another one that really looks interesting, but again: be conscious of what you do. Microsoft warns against it, but who is naive enough to take that seriously? O&O Software is a company that is run by Scientology, but nevertheless has some good software. They have recently issued a free antispy-tool for silencing Windows 10: O&OShutUp10. But one may quite safely assume that no such tool protects to 100%: Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings. / Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft.
New Tools for taming Windows 10: DoNotSpy10 (caution: wants to install adware, decline this at the installation), Disable Windows 10 Tracking, Win10Privacy (can deactivate mandatory updating).
IT WOULD NOT AT ALL BE ASTONISHING IF MICROSOFT OCCASIONALLY SNEAKS IN AN UPDATE THAT REVERTS THESE SETTINGS TO DEFAULT. THEREFORE: CHECK THESE SETTINGS REGULARLY! AND THEY MAY "UPDATE" TO ANOTHER WAY OF SPYING.
There is a tool Destroy Windows 10 Spying (newer but less description at the author's page) that adds many URLs to your hosts file to be blocked, since they are used to report to Microsoft, directly or indirectly. These URLs are listed in the link and you can alternatively enter them yourself in your hosts file, if you know how. The tool may also take some additional action. It is recommended also for Windows 7 and 8, where some newer updates are suspected to add spy functions.
The following information about some of these URLs was found on an "alternative" news page:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
vortex.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
df.telemetry.microsoft.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
pre.footprintpredict.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
pre.footprintpredict.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
telemetry.appex.bing.net
telemetry.urs.microsoft.com
cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com