WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

MichaelIrons,

>>MS know what the issue is...<<

>>MS seems to have a history of ignoring user problems which have been instigated by MS<<

I believe the vast number of views and posts combined with the crickets at MS's end indicate that as far as Microsloth is concerned, this is not an issue or problem.  It is simply MS forcing its way around legal and users attempts to protect user privacy.  MS's ultimate goal, I believe, is to be able to have a real-time, full picture of your computer and you using it so they can make money by marketing to you, selling data mined about you to their corporate clients, and make products you use that compete with MS products, harder to use / incompatible with Windows in order to "convert" you to the MS product.

EXAMPLE:  Microsloth Edge.  Once before MS tried to force Windows users to use the MS browser (Internet Explorer) instead of its cheif rival, Netscape.  They did this by making IE an integral part of the OS that users could not uninstall, and at OS installation / update, resetting IE as the default for a slew of FileTypes normally assigned to third party applications.  The EU filed suit and won with the opinion stating that IE was an APPLICATION and NOT and INTEGRAL PART OF THE OS, and as such its forced usage was an illegal monopolistic ploy that was an unfair, and anti-competetive attempt to crush a competitor's product.

Yet now we have EDGE doing the same thing EXACTLY once again. MS has now made EDGE uninstallable, it changes default filetype assignments for web-based documents, PDFs and some other forms of XML files to EDGE when it initially was updated earlier this year, and it is now uninstallable.  The "excuse" is that it is an integral part of the OS since it is now the module that runs the Windows Search functions.  If you type into the search bar, and you select to search the Web you are FORCED to use EDGE AND BING to do so even if you chosen default web-browser is from a third party and your default search engine is not Bing.  So if the EU does not once again prosecute MS for the EXACT SAME ANTI-COMPETETIVE, MONOPOLISTIC BEHAVIOR of the IE case, MS will subsequently make File Explorer (and therefore desktop icon interaction ) and Start menu management a module of EDGE, under the guise that a basic function of the Operating System is URI search and access regardless of whether the URI is local, LAN or Internet / cloud based. And if that argument is won, MS will soon add code to the OS to remove / disable third-party browsers, search engines, and email clients to force you into a MS 360 subscription and MS Store Appsas your ONLY computing application options. Developers who are smart should be looking at creating Linux versions of their applications as a hedge.

Flash5108,

>>In this case I attribute to a stand alone USB hard drive for backups.<<

This must be a different problem than this thread addresses.  I say that because all the resource hogging on my system is on the system drive.  During the "bog time" there is NO - as in ZERO - access time or I/O throughput on my internal RAID 10 array, or my external RAID 5 array.  ALL disk access is on the system drive, an oversight MS will likely work to "correct". :^{

If Ms can pry into our computers to STEAL information, then they can do the same in obtaining issues like we are discussing in this thread. So why the need for users to use Feedback Hub, surely would be more useful than them knowing the colour of my under-ware today. Would of thought them STEALING our private information would contravene all International DPA's.

Received May WUD's today, MS Update guide lists 834 items for 2004, last month 2700+ items - why do we need so many items in an update, does this infer that all these items have a previous flaw? (probably MORE after the update). Do MS realise that after 5 months the joke is over now.

Installed May's WUD's. Included again is Windows Malicious Software Tool. Does not appear to work properly - has not removed WaaSMedic !!