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.

See also How to stop the Windows 10 Upgrade from downloading on your system and Prevent the Windows 10 Upgrade. The second link also tells in a section below that (and how) you can “roll back” to the previous system in case of an accidental upgrade – but how long will you be able to do that and what may still remain from Windows 10? GWX Control Panel is an application that searches for GWX.exe and sets your computer such that it prevents downloading files that prepare for the installation of Windows 10.

Another program for this purpose is here: Windows 10 Zwangs-Update-Killer v1.0 (this is in German). However, it may in this version (hopefully in a future version) not delete an already downloaded installation program for Windows 10 that may be is found $Windows.~BT (possibly a hidden folder) and could have a size around 6 GB! Windows 7 and 8 have a secret "Steps Recorder" that can record keyboard inputs and subsequent screen dumps. It is recommended for troubleshooting but is obviously "useful" for espionage. This recorder can be deactivated, see also Problem Steps Recorder for Troubleshooting (works in Windows 7 and Windows 8). (Note that in gpedit - intentionally confusing? - "enabled" must be marked to enable disabling...)

Windows 8 and higher also have a Snipping Tool (in C:\Windows\system32\SnippingTool.exe) that can make screen dumps. This can (if remotely activated) serve espionage attempts. It can also be turned off in gpedit. The page explains how to turn it on, but the same way it can be turned off, and again you have to mark "enable" to disable the tool.)

Windows 10 contains a neat collection of spy and control functions, see: Windows 10: Your privacy is dead. The control functions may, furthermore, interact with your computer to change what Big Brother does not like. It could also be that a killswitch is built in, with which Microsoft (or someone else) could deactivate your system, or part of it.

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).

Updates to Windows 10 is mandatory and automatic updating can (almost) not be turned off, see also Windows 10 Automatic Updates Start Causing Problems. As can be seen, there are (so far) certain tricks to stop the automatic updating – until Microsoft may put an end to it. That way Microsoft can smuggle whatever they want into your computer. The nice excuse is, of course, that this is for your own good. It would be fine if this were only for your safety, but it will in certain cases also be for the “safe function” of the surveillance system, that is: more clever spy and control functions.

Here is a recent article about Espionage going wild with Windows 10.  Here is more: Windows 10 Disinformation. And it is going on: Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out. / Windows 10: The first 5 things you need to do immediately after you install it. / 5 common problems people are having with Windows 10 – and how to fix them. / Windows 10 Is Spying On You: Here’s How To Stop It. Reports are growing by the day: ‘Incredibly intrusive’: Windows 10 spies on you by default / ‘Don’t spy on me!’ How to opt out of Windows 10’s intrusive defaults. And when you have done the latter there will soon be a mandatory update that reintroduces the standard. If you install Windows 10 you can end up in jail! / The real price of Windows 10 is your privacy. Videos: Windows 10 Privacy and Freedom Concerns and Windows 10 spying. / Windows 10: How to Protect Your Privacy. / Windows 10 Is Full Blown Electronic Tyranny. / The truth about Windows 10 spying on almost everything you do.

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.

That Big Brother wants everyone to have Windows 10 to be better surveilled and manipulated is so obvious that it needs a good portion of naivety and gullibility to not want to see it.

That Microsoft also wants to make money from personal adverting, for which they want to know everything about you, will rather come in the 2nd place.

It is then no wonder that the number of persons who concern themselves with Linux is growing, to sooner or later change to that system. It is also no wonder that Microsoft itself since 2003 secretly works on a Linux system (see here, here and here). They will, of course, want a Linux in the same sense as Windows 10, serving Big Brother. But: Is Microsoft now trying to invade Linux systems with spying intentions? May no Linux user ever install such a thing!

Is all this mere “conspiracy theory”? Wait, and you will see for yourself…

Now it would it no way be astonishing if MS would soon try to let a new update sneak into your computer that does more or less the same as KB3035583. To guard yourself against this possibility, I recommend to deactivate automatic updates and only update manually.

Guard your computer against unwanted updates. Never install an update related to telemetry!

 

WARNING!!! On top of all this circus about Microsoft's new spyware there is now a ransomware on the loose in the Internet. DO NEVER OPEN AN E-MAIL THAT OFFERS YOU TO DOWNLOAD A MICROSOFT 10 INSTALLATION FILE! See That Windows 10 update message could be ransomware in disguise. A ransomware is a blackmail virus that blocks you from access to your data unless you pay a considerable amount to unlock it. See also CTB-Locker ransomware being pushed by fake Windows 10 Update emails.

How to block download and upgrade for Windows 10.

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:

All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 minutes) to:

    oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
    pre.footprintpredict.com
    reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com

Telemetry is sent once per 5 minutes, to:

    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

Typing the name of any popular movie into your local file search starts a telemetry process that indexes all media files on your computer and transmits them to:

    df.telemetry.microsoft.com
    reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
    cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
    vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
    pre.footprintpredict.com

When a webcam is first enabled, 35Mb of data gets immediately transmitted to:

    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

Everything that is said into an enabled microphone is immediately transmitted to:

    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