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@emanhaus

When you choose Windows 7 as the OS on the webpage, the driver not being listed under “All drivers” indicates that the driver is built into Windows 7.

I am interested, what is your method? Are you home-brewing this yourself? If so, that’s already been done by the knowledgeable folks at MDL, I pointed out their script 3 posts up.

I did some reading to find an answer the question contained in the title of this thread (“So how DO you block the upgrade to Win10 1709”) and provided the 2 solutions above. I got only 2 thanks for my reply, frankly I’m surprised that no one else here tested the MDL script or the other solution (at least in a VM) and reported back if they worked or not… thought I had come up with something good.

Hey Noel Carboni:

According to av-comparatives.org, in their February 2018 real-world detection test, Windows Defender detected 100% of the malware thrown at it.

Not too shabby…

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Jonathan Handler

>> DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO DISABLE WINDOWS UPDATE COMPLETELY

I have just found 2 utilities that stop the entire Windows Update mechanism from running – one is an MDL project that can be found on Majorgeeks.com:

WUMT Wrapper Script 2.2.5

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/wumt_wrapper_script.html

The other is from a company that offers several nifty utilities:

Win Update Stop v1.2

http://www.novirusthanks.org/products/win-update-stop

 

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MrBrian, satrow, HiFlyer

I haven’t had any issues with this site, but when I check uMatrix for http://www.AskWoody.com to see what scripts it loads, I see these 3 crazy URL’s:

pnamic.com

netanalyzer.space

worldnaturenet.xyz

The last 2 are related to Cloudflare — what do these scripts do?? I see scripts from these 3 being loaded when browsing other legitimate websites.

 

You may want to try SFCFix:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/sfcfix.html

I’m confused — the quote from the MSDN blog post given above by MrBrian says the “production” level fix will be available on Windows Update in August, but down in the comment section, Rich Lander says “We intend to do another preview release in August and then have all the fixes go “live” in September on patch Tuesday”…

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Charlie

Fernando has an excellent guide to the Intel MEI; there is background info, info on this vulnerability, and a firmware repository:

http://www.win-raid.com/t596f39-Intel-Management-Engine-Drivers-Firmware-amp-System-Tools.html

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Bill C.

Antivirus software can also protect against this exploit. I use ESET Antivirus which recently added ransomware protection. ESET calls this one “Win32/Filecoder.WannaCryptor”, it currently has 4 variants.

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HiFlyer

Your friend may want to move the newsletter to MailChimp, it’s completely free if you have less than 2000 list members. With other solutions, there are some setup hoops to jump through with SPF/DKIM/DMARC DNS records, but MailChimp takes care of all that for you. Nice GUI for the newsletter editor.

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woody

Ever since I discovered this excellent site, the layout has puzzled me a bit.

On the home page are several news articles, with titles in bold type and underlined with the dashes. The article that prompted me to write this is

“A few cosmetic changes…”

Clicking on that link on the home page takes me to another page (call it a “secondary” page)

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/a-few-cosmetic-changes/

which has the same 4 paragraphs of text as the post on the home page. On this “secondary” page are TWO identical links

Comment on the AskWoody Lounge
Follow this link to join the discussion

to the actual forum page

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/a-few-cosmetic-changes/

where the replies/discussion are.

My main point is — why is the “secondary” page there at all, since it has the same text as the home page and just contains links to the actual forum page where the replies are? The secondary page has no additional content, so why not make the dashed-underline link on the home page take the reader directly to the actual forum page?

Smaller points:

On the actual forum page, shouldn’t the original post (the 4 paragraphs on the home page) be the first post, rather than the fragment currently there with a link BACK to the “secondary” page?

Again, on the actual forum page, there is a link at the top “Comment on the AskWoody Lounge” but the target of that link is the actual forum page, we are already there…

 

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HiFlyer

An excellent read:

“You took so much time to joke me”—two hours trolling a Windows support scammer

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/take-your-sweet-time-how-i-scammed-a-tech-support-scammer-for-nearly-two-hours/

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HiFlyer

These are good for testing:

http://www.ipv6-test.com/

http://www.test-ipv6.com/

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woody, rc primak, Microfix, ch100

Dunno about the driver updates setting — the How-To Geek article was based on Insider build 15031…

Excellent article here on what’s new in the upcoming Creators Update (aka Redstone 2):

https://www.howtogeek.com/278132/whats-new-in-windows-10s-creators-update/

From the section “More Control Over Windows Update” — updates can be paused for up to 35 days, and driver updates can be disabled – except on Windows 10 Home edition. The number of Active Hours can be set to 18, up from the current 12…

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Elly