KB3035583 Installing Windows 10 using Windows Update?

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Would you please tell me how to prevent the installation of KB3035583 in my computer and if it is already installed, how to remove it? Also, are there other updates that we need to be concerned about that enable this behaviour?

KB3035583 now appears as an Important update in Windows Update and is checked which means it will be automatically installed if the user does not uncheck it. If automatic update is set, it will install without intervention.

There are credible articles that say that Microsoft either has installed or will install changes to my computer that will enable Microsoft to use it as an advertising platform and then install Windows 10 without first obtaining an informed decision to do so. I truly hope this is not true.

On behalf of my clients and their 162 Windows "consumer" computers, I must tell you that we do not grant Microsoft or any other vendor the right to do this. When other Windows players do this, we regard it as malware and take great care to remove it.

Microsoft got to where it is today by selling Windows. We have spent decades learning how to use Windows and billions of dollars buying Windows computers and Windows software. We own these systems. They are ours, not Microsoft's.

Windows Update has earned a huge trust. We trust Microsoft to use Windows Update to keep our computers safe and secure. When Patch Tuesday comes along we install all the updates that Microsoft says are "important." We assume those to be either plugging a security leak or fixing a software error.

We all hope Windows 10 will be something we will want. We will carefully review and consult trusted advisors before we install Windows 10. We have seen Windows 8 and rejected it. Windows 8 is a bad product we did not choose.

Automatically installing Windows 10 on our computers would be a severe abuse of a well-earned trust. Changing our computers to enable them to become advertising platforms is also an abuse.

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Anonymous

2016-02-06T15:06:28+00:00

As one of the "Novices" to which you refer (And a Luddite) , I unlike some have read every post on this thread as I have been here (by Choice) since almost the beginning , never once has anyone tried to lure me , point me to any other website away from MS

If there was an alternative most people on here would already have switched to it

I am a big boy , Novice maybe , but still big enough to read what people say & think and to make my own choices , After all it was Me who sought out this thread for a solution to my problem which was windows 10 , Nobody coerced me ,conned me or persuaded me ,to come here , or to carry out the actions I took , I made those choices from reading what success others had had after rejecting Windows 10 , I would now also do exactly the same with

Internet Explorer 11 if I find a thread on how to remove it ,but as I said that is for another thread

As for being hacked, putting myself and others in danger , being unprotected etc

I have to date enjoyed the Best 8 months of un interrupted computer use since I first got one, and my junk box continues to get filled
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Anonymous

2016-02-06T15:06:06+00:00

If your purpose and Gerry's is to stifle conversation about our not wanting Windows 10 and how to do it -- my original purpose -- you have succeeded!

I will no longer be watching this thread as your comments have become boring and one-sided to an extreme.

Signing off,

Canadian Tech
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Monkey57 3,535 Reputation points

2016-02-06T14:45:16+00:00
The apparent purpose of this thread seems to be:
1. convince novice users to either not install security updates, or uninstall security updates.
2. lead them to a private website, where because they are unsecure, allows the owner of that website to take control of visitors computers.
3. reap the benefits of doing this from a Microsoft website, with many novice users.
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Anonymous

2016-02-06T14:11:21+00:00

I see. Well, then I will have to repeat that

I read it in a number of sources.

We will see what happens to your computers.
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Anonymous

2016-02-06T14:11:01+00:00

Your view only serves to perpetuate an environment in a novice users device, ripe for a scammer to take advantage of.

And why is that?
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