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IE security update includes Win10 upgrade adware?

The update fits the description of trojan horse adware.

The worst part.

It's important to note that KB 3146449 is not installed separately. You can't remove it. If you look in your installed updates list, KB 3146449 doesn't appear. Instead, it's baked into the IE security patch KB 3139929. The only way to get rid of the new advertising inside Internet Explorer 11 is to remove the security patch entirely.
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I would think if you have disablegwx and the other Windows 10 update notifications disabled in the registry/group policy editor then this sort of thing shouldn't affect you.

You should be able to install all of the "Get Windows 10" updates and never see the affects of any of them.
 
I've been waiting for this, and I have no doubt that Microsoft will start adding similar crap to future security updates. At some point, you won't be able to get any security updates without Windows 10 advertising, or worse.
 
Has anyone actually confirmed this? As in you saw it yourself or have reliable screenshots of it?

From TFA:

I spent most of the night trying to replicate this behavior -- a blue banner on new tabs in IE11 with "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10" -- and couldn't get it to trigger. If you can, I'd appreciate your shooting an email with a screenshot to woody@askwoody.com.
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My Win7 and Win 8.1 VMs don't exhibit any of this behavior. MSN does have some Win10 ads, but that's something else entirely.
 
ViRGE said:
Has anyone actually confirmed this? As in you saw it yourself or have reliable screenshots of it?

My Win7 and Win 8.1 VMs don't exhibit any of this behavior. MSN does have some Win10 ads, but that's something else entirely.
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What's your reason for posting this? There's an MSKB article that describes what it does:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3146449

This update adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10.
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I agree Virge that the article doesn't describe much and definitely doesn't say anything about placing information on the tabs.
 
ViRGE said:
Because I can't recreate it, and I can't find anyone else that can either. So I'm a bit confused as to what's going on.😛

At best, it seems like the KB article is being misinterpreted?
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I don't see what could be misinterpreted, the wording seems pretty clear. So the trigger for the functionality isn't as simple as one might suppose, given MS's aggressive tendencies wrt pushing Win10.

In related news, not all adware will trigger a consistent response either 🙂
 
I think the main takeaway here is there are still people using IE and enough of them to make noise beyond a whimper.
 
After July where you have to pay for WIndows 10 and we'll still get ads? That's like some bad Android apps you purchase on the play store and still get ads on them.
 
TeknoBug said:
After July where you have to pay for WIndows 10 and we'll still get ads? That's like some bad Android apps you purchase on the play store and still get ads on them.
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I'm going to make a prediction and MS will magically announce right at the expiration period that they're either extending it or making it basically free forever for upgrades.
 
nerp said:
I'm going to make a prediction and MS will magically announce right at the expiration period that they're either extending it or making it basically free forever for upgrades.
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Yup, they've engaged in far too aggressive a campaign to simply give up when July comes around.
 
nerp said:
I'm going to make a prediction and MS will magically announce right at the expiration period that they're either extending it or making it basically free forever for upgrades.
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A couple months ago on a different forum, I made a half-joke / half-prediction, that after July, MS might even bump it up with like a $10-$20 Windows Store credit, just please upgrade, pretty pleeease. 🙂
 
It's hilarious how desperate MS is to get people on 10.

I predict that all the data collection is for advertising purposes and that win10 will eventually be adware, with the option to pay to remove the ads. It makes too much sense from a business point of view. It's an advertiser's wet dream. Even Facebook can't match that level of granularity.

Though to be fair, they've always been kinda desperate to get people to switch to a new OS. But this time they are really pushing far.
 
I don't think so. The money is in their cloud and subscription services. Windows is just the platform to sell those services. They're going to give away Windows like Apple gives away its OSs. That's why Microsoft is being so aggressive with trying to get as many existing Windows 7 and 8 machines to 10. The money they make from selling licenses to OEMs and customers is rapidly becoming a smaller and smaller part of their overall revenue strategy. Consider the new embracing of Linux and new partnerships that have been all in the news this week. Face it, this is a different Microsoft now.
 
I don't have IE on my Win 10 install, the exec doesn't even exist either. lol

And I also agree that MS might do a 180 on their July 29th deadline and make it a free OS or some catch 22.
 
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