WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

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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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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.

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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Anonymous

2021-05-28T05:54:29+00:00

Couple of times lately, picked up from Norton 360 performance tab. TIworker running. As with yesterday PM, logged on as normal, 40 minutes later cooling fan cut in, for a couple of minutes, checked what had caused issue and was TIworker using CPU. I understand that this is related to installation of UPDATES which does normally run during that process. But why run 40 minutes after boot - can find no record of any installations since May WUDs so what was being installed. Did find something a few weeks ago that had been updated but not recorded anywhere as a recently installed update. Is MS spyware deeper than we thought?
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Anonymous

2021-05-29T14:11:44+00:00

What does this piece of software do?
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Anonymous

2021-05-29T14:25:36+00:00

According to MS, it repairs the updating process, why it needs repairing continuously for the last 5 months seems a bit unbelievable. General consensus of opinion is that it is another MS scheme to STEAL your private data etc on our computers, otherwise why have MS not sorted it, (unless they know what it is & they have instigated it)
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2021-05-30T06:12:17+00:00

Standard (for me) 8-9 minutes run this morning. Yesterday, WUD shown as automatically checking 4 times during day for any WUD's, last shortly after evening boot. Did not run this morning as boot less than 12 hours from last, manual check brought up Net. framework update so installed. Opened EDGE. notification to change settings to MS recommended, clicked 'No' but then did not open at my Home page so evidently MS provisional reset anyway to THEIR way. Reboot sorted - back to MY settings. Another example of MS BIG, BIG, BIG BROTHER syndrome, YOU WILL DO IT OUR WAY. Object to MS telling me how to live my life along with stealing MY data & failing to sort and lack of any update to this problem over WaasMedic, confirmation I think that this is all a MS designed evil.
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