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
    2021-08-08T14:17:40+00:00

    Seems the only way is to get rid of Windows OS - nothing else seems to solve issue

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-05T03:18:11+00:00

    The only way to get my system to respond is to stop all these processes. As soon as you do that the information on the high disk usage is no longer there. This is an insult to anyone with intelligence and is a non-answer. Pure rhetoric.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-03T19:13:22+00:00

    Because of Microsoft lack of any response at all I reckon its all a forerunner in readiness for when Microsoft will start charging everyone an Annual Fee for their Operating System usage, by which time they will have everyone by the testicles. After all, they have already done it with Microsoft Office haven't they

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-08-03T01:33:56+00:00

    So have we just given up on M$ ever changing the WaaSMedic hard drive destruction program? After running for over 8 minutes on Sunday it started in reading the same files all over again today. I had to do a restart to stop the WaaS malware from running again. Windows really has become a Virus. No real response from M$ here for 8 months now. Pathetic. But on a positive note my Linux systems are running lean and clean.

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