WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

Anonymous
2021-01-02T19:26:13+00:00

My computer slowed to a crawl. I cannot work. I checked task manager and saw a process waas Medic agent exe is the culprit. It is using 2.8 mb of memory and 1.2 mbs of disk usage.

I understand this is a Microsoft process. What I don't understand is what give Microsoft the right to take over my computer whenever it wants to and stop me from working.

How do I stop this?

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Anonymous
2021-03-16T19:13:13+00:00

Update (5/5/21) - Editing with some additional details.

Can some of you reporting high CPU or high disk usage of the WaasMedic agent create a Feedback Hub entry for me and share the Feedback URL on this thread?

The most important part would be the 'Recreate my Problem' recording while you see the high resource usage in Task Manager.

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I want to promote some of these Feedback entries for investigation.

Updates:

Thank you for those who have been trying to file feedback. In some cases the system performance has prevented the use of Recreate my problem.

The Feedback is still useful without the recording, I will still raise those entries.

It is also useful if the Feedback is done shortly after the system is no longer experiencing the high disk usage, I will be calling out those entries as well.

Finally, I was not clear about the best Category and Sub Category selections. Please use Category: Install and update Sub Category: Downloading, installing, and configuring Windows Updates

Thanks,

Paul...

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-12T14:07:25+00:00

    Same thing here, but...

    After it took 45 minutes to get to the desktop the system became unresponsive, even trying to open Task Manager gave me the popup message: "Microsoft Windows: The system is not responding". (Never saw thatone before)

    So I tried several reboots with the same result.

    Finally I used the recovery stick to remove the latest update. After 30 minutes the system finally rebooted again OK.

    I immediately turned off updates (well... suspended, since Microsoft no longer allows me to turn off any updates) but on the next reboot the system was very slow again, so i checked Task Manager and again WaazMedic running followed by diskdefragmenter and WINDOWS UPDATE orchestrator, manager, helper, installer...

    Took over 2 hours! (while updates where still suspended!)

    On next reboot the messages "updating system" and "preparing windows"  again taking over half an hour...

    Then, checking update history, NO Updates installed in the past 2 days and no update errors...

    What the hell are you doing Microsoft??

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-12T12:28:10+00:00

    Finally got monthly updates yesterday first thing, rest of day OK. Booted this morning all OK. Booted 30 minutes ago late morning - worst problem I have had with WAAS medic to date, virtually unusable for good 10 minutes. Boot procedure seemed different. Got to Lock screen, normally leave for up to a minute before clicking & progressing to log-in screen. Today log-on screen appeared without prompt, then disappeared, clicked and screen a few seconds later & re-appeared so could log-in but felt a bit laboured. Got in but system tray icons not all there for a minute or two. Eventually managed to open Task Manager, normal system, etc on listing with WAASMedic taking a large proportion of disc which gradually grew. Trying to open any apps just stalled. Returned to normal when that completed. Restarted OK. MICROSOFT SORT IT NOW PLEASE - looks as though this month's updates have not addressed this issue. During Task Manager Dell support Assistant was running with Dell Health ? running, opened , checked & it shows update available with choice to install or not, no notifications shown - normally don't get the choice no doubt it will update itself as normal.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-11T07:34:18+00:00

    Completely baffled. This morning booted, few minutes later opened Task manager. Service Host Windows Update running, then Windows Module Installer running in conjunction. Few minutes later opened settings/Update & Security - was in process of installing monthly update - went thru' complete install process as normal. This was inside reserved working hours - no notifications except reboot now/later on completing install process. Normally, when opening app, it requires manual confirmation to 'Download & Install' - no choice this morning. Last physical check 4:12 pm yesterday - showed nothing available - looked again 2 hours later prior to shutdown still showing 4:12 pm - did not check any further. Had a couple of mid-term updates done this - totally unaware of their happening - both inside reserved working hours. In February when I checked prior to evening shutdown on the Tuesday evening, there was the monthly update which had mysteriously appeared with no input from me but this required download & shutdown so arrived 12hours prior to normal. What is going on ?. Perhaps my fault for switching on computer - would not have these problems if I left it off.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-10T15:02:43+00:00

    I just found this! Web shell Exploitation bug! This is my issue! Praying that it fixes it. I’ll let you know. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsofts-msert-tool-now-finds-web-shells-from-exchange-server-attacks/#comments

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