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
    2021-06-08T08:44:44+00:00

    I don't think the burden of proof is on the user here.

    At least 3000 people have done their police work and identified WaasMedic as the culprit and I am writing this in June '21, 5 months after the OP submitted this and his feedback and I am still facing the problem.

    What happened to the time you guys took your money upfront and left us alone?

    I am fed up of having to find out what things you keep screwing up with my computer on a regular and consistent basis.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-08T08:49:42+00:00

    Before Windows 8 came along, I really though Apple was a poor excuse of an OS, just a gimmick to trick brats to throw their money Apple's way.

    As time passes MacOS seems more viable by the day. Especially with Windows going down the tubes as fast as it did.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-08T09:00:47+00:00

    MS is most likely going to "solve" this problem by hiding this malware under svchost like they did with superfetch.

    Guys, when are we going to fully switch to Linux?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-08T23:52:46+00:00

    MS is most likely going to "solve" this problem by hiding this malware under svchost like they did with superfetch.

    Guys, when are we going to fully switch to Linux?

    Yes, this is not a bug as far as MS is concerned. The "problem" is that their spyware was caught by users due to its ridiculous gluttonous consumption of system resources, and now they have already spread much or WaasMedic spying to other modules without relieving the resource consumption issues.

    The main point here is that MS (being too big to break up or prosecute) is going to use it monopolistic power to:

    1. violate your privacy in any way they can to effectively build a moment-by-moment profile of your machine use, tracking your every key stroke, and uploading the complete content of your HD's to their servers. This data they then use for algorithms to force marketing / advertising ware onto your system, and to figure out which competitors software they need to subvert so you'll buy a Microsloth product to replace it.
    2. Utililize data about your devices to figure out how to spy on you even when you are not touching your device (e.g. spying through your camera, listening through your microphone, monitoring gyro and GPS to track your movements etc.)

    As for Linux, I would love to switch but most of my "pro" video, audio and photo processing tools plus an Access 2007 database I have to maintain for a long-time client do not run on Linux. Otherwise I'd be gone in a second.

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