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Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus

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Homer wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> 'At the end of April, Microsoft's Windows 10 nagware interrupted a live
> TV weather broadcast to urge meteorologist Metinka Slater to upgrade her
> computer.
>
> A week later, while playing Counter Strike: Global Offensive to 130,000
> spectators on Twitch.tv, Erik Flom was blasted out of his match by the
> Windows 10 installer. This was even after he spent a few frantic minutes
> trying to delay the upgrade until after his game had ended. The fun
> starts about nine minutes into this recording of the live stream. "Fuck
> you, Windows 10!" was Flom's response.
>
> But it's not just TV presenters and video-game celebrities getting
> caught out by Windows 10's enthusiasm to plonk itself down on PCs.
> Plenty of Register readers, who have also had their work and home
> computers hijacked out of nowhere by the software, have been in touch to
> share their stories.'
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/06/windows_10_upgrade_hell
>
> Includes a weather channel and a radio station being unexpectedly
> hijacked by Microsoft's "upgrade" virus, even after explicitly and
> repeatedly rejecting Microsoft's "offer".
>
> Windows has always been the market leader in computer viruses, so I
> suppose it makes sense that it would eventually become one.

Yours was the only post out of about 90 to make it through.

Much troll thrash in COLA.  (Nothing new).

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCqw9FmBgKY

   Francis Hates Windows 10

   "C'mon little buddy, let's turn you into a Steam machine..."

LOL

-- 
Let him choose out of my files, his projects to accomplish.
		-- Shakespeare, "Coriolanus"

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The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-05-07 00:04 +0100
  Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-06 21:04 -0400
    Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-05-07 23:59 +0100
      Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-07 19:26 -0400
        Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Me Sham <osirus47@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-09 11:07 -0700
        Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-05-10 15:34 +0100
          Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-10 15:09 -0400
            Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 21:26 +0000
              Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-10 20:04 -0400
                What Windows 10 is good for Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 19:23 -0700
                Re: What Windows 10 is good for Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-11 07:16 -0400
    Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-09 07:15 -0500
  Re: If you can't configure Windows 10 properly, don't use it. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-05-07 09:38 -0400
  Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 17:27 +0000
    Re: The Windows 10 "upgrade" virus Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-05-08 00:05 +0100
      Re: I'm about to do the upgrade, Win8 to Win10. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 18:27 -0700
        Windows 10 sends screenshots to Microsoft Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 18:16 -0700
          Re: TakuyaSaitoh has a really good imagination, no facts. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 19:59 -0700
      Re: It took me 11 hours to upgrade from Win8 to Win10. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-05-08 08:43 -0400
        Re: I made Win10 do what I want. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 06:37 -0700
      Re: Most people shouldn't even attempt it. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-05-09 00:52 -0400
      Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-09 21:34 -0700
      Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-05-10 02:29 -0400
        Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills. JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-05-11 14:24 -0500
      Microsoft is now a malware vendor Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-05-10 16:08 +0100
        Re: Microsoft is now a malware vendor chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-10 11:29 -0500
          Re: Microsoft is now a malware vendor ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 18:26 +0000
        Re: Setting the "Windows Update" service to "Disabled" ( not "Manual") will not save you from Microsoft's grasping tentacles Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 19:48 -0700
        Re: Microsoft is now a malware vendor DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-11 18:54 -0400

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