Microsoft now wants you to click an add in order to login?!?

[RoGeorge]

Very hard to believe, but I don't use Windows any more, so I'm asking here:



Is it true Microsoft does this now, or he just got a malware from a 3rd party, other than Microsoft? 

[ataradov]

It is MS, but you can disable it in the same place where you disable all the embedded malware and ads, somewhere in the settings.

[bitseeker]

I don't have any of those popups enabled on my login screen. You probably only have to click somewhere on the screen, not the Bing ads, but I've not had the pleasure of trying.

Instead of clicking, what about just hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del to log in like on Enterprise versions of Windows? Even though the Home version doesn't require that keystroke, it should still work. It does on my Win10.

[MrMobodies]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-security-are-ads-in-microsofts-own-apps-pushing-fake-malware-alerts/

By Liam Tung | June 3, 2019 -- 12:52 GMT (13:52 BST) | Topic: Security

Windows 10 users are complaining of being targeted by fraudsters through in-app ads delivered through Microsoft's own software.

The fraudulent apps are being delivered through native Windows 10 applications like the Microsoft News app, according to Windows-focused site Ghacks.

Much like online ads promoting tech-support scams, the in-app ads are using bogus system alerts to warn users of non-existent security threats and other issues.

A customer gave me something some months ago and according to them a spam email was opened up and all the icons on the desktop started to disappear and they got dialogue messages that their PC is infected and they said they turned it off. System restore started weeks before I got so I could not find out for certain out what actually happened. I checked all the emails and the spam ones and could not find the one in question.

When did my checks, the last accessed deleted files on the dates it happened was for a game called Candy Crush and then for two days nothing and after that many of the directories had been recreated from the restore.

Surprise surprise:
https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/247040/virus

Advertising supported?

I believe after the game was run they got something that looked like an email through the platform it was running on from an advert that it targeted.

I had another person early this year who had many things installed and kept on appearing at startup after using one of those bundled so called "apps" but I couldn't recreate the issue. The date he said it happened was consistent with the time they got on there. I could not find any link in browsing history to dodgy download sites.

Now I will uninstall anything advert supported that is non browser based and from that "apps" section in Windows 10.

[JxR]

You can change this behavior in Settings>Personalization>Lock screen: "Get fun facts, tips, tricks...." (Turn to off).  Yes, this being a default setting is beyond stupid.

You can also disable most of the online sillyness, telemetry, Cortana, etc.  Some of it requires disabling services, setting group policy objects, and/or registry keys.

[AntiProtonBoy]

There is a version of Windows, called Windows 10 LTSB, which as most of these garbage disabled by default. I had a quick play with it in a VM, and it is legit.

More info: https://www.howtogeek.com/273824/windows-10-without-the-cruft-windows-10-ltsb-explained/

[bitseeker]

I currently use Shut Up 10 for easier access to various tracking settings and detecting when they've been turned back on ( Microsoft).

[NorthGuy]

You can change this behavior in Settings>Personalization>Lock screen: "Get fun facts, tips, tricks...." (Turn to off).  Yes, this being a default setting is beyond stupid.

You can also disable most of the online sillyness, telemetry, Cortana, etc.  Some of it requires disabling services, setting group policy objects, and/or registry keys.

Or install Linux to disable Windows 10 altogether.

[rdl]

I wasn't aware that a version like this existed, though to be honest I haven't looked that hard. I may have to give it a try. I am no stranger to slmgr, having run Windows 7 on one computer normally for almost 6 years without having had to "activate".

There is a version of Windows, called Windows 10 LTSB, which as most of these garbage disabled by default. I had a quick play with it in a VM, and it is legit.

[MrMobodies]

There is a version of Windows, called Windows 10 LTSB, which as most of these garbage disabled by default. I had a quick play with it in a VM, and it is legit.

More info: https://www.howtogeek.com/273824/windows-10-without-the-cruft-windows-10-ltsb-explained/

I have spent weeks and all of last night and today stripping out the services for Windows 10 that may re enable windows update and interrupt what I am doing and it has been frustrating.

I wanted it on so I can choose what and when to install as set in group policy but no it shuts down when I am working most of the time with no warning.
Not acceptable. I had lots of problems with gaining ownership to remove and delete those things but I think I solved that now.

I got rid of the trendy "apps" and stripped it of that new fancy looking oversimplified dumbed down "PC settings" UI stuff.

I'll take a look at the LTSB edition and see if I can get it.