The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has announced that, on March 31st, 2016, certain types of advertisement-injection will be reclassified as malware. This does not include all forms of ad-injection, just ones which use confusing, difficult to remove, or insecure methods of displaying them. Specifically, adware must use the browser's default extension model, including their disable and remove functions. Recent adware has been known to modify DNS and proxy settings to force web traffic through a third party that injects ads, including secure websites using root certificates.
In other words, Superfish.
An interesting side-story is that, while Microsoft requires that adware uses default browser extensions, Microsoft Edge does not yet have any. Enforcement doesn't start until March 31st, but we don't have a date for when extensions arrive in Microsoft. I seriously doubt that the company intends to give Edge a lead-time, but that might end up happening by chance. The lead time is probably to give OEMs and adware vendors a chance to update their software before it is targeted.
The post doesn't explicitly state the penalties of shipping adware that violates this blog post, but the criteria is used for antimalware tools. As such, violators will probably be removed by Windows Defender, but that might not be the only consequence.
I wonder when they will start
I wonder when they will start detecting those government back doors?
This whole system is
This whole system is predicated on knowing the issue exists.
What about their own ads?
What about their own ads?
do you know what ad injection
do you know what ad injection is?
move along.
do you know what ad injection
do you know what ad injection is?
move along.
At some stage only Safe Mode
At some stage only Safe Mode will be available because of the ads in ‘Normal Mode’.
of course, can’t have any
of course, can’t have any sort of MS post without bringing out the trolls.
Of course, there can be no
Of course, there can be no one saying the emperor has no clothes in your demented opinion, and the paid M$ apologists are out there in force. There will be those who would want true OS choice on their newly purchased PC/laptop hardware and those who will defend the monopoly interests of the Redmond based M$ OS Trust, but windows 10 is a suckers bargain!
M$ is slowly claiming your
M$ is slowly claiming your desktop and browser sessions as their exclusive territory for M$’s own ad pushing. Little by little M$ is illegally vertically integrating the independent third party laptop/PC hardware OEM market into its business monetization scheme. M$ is not particularly concerned with relieving users of injected ad content annoyances as much as M$ is concerned with having M$’s own ad delivery mechanism be the method of ad delivery, with M$’s cut of the ad/App revenues as the primary focus of windows 10 mostly, while M$ tries by hook or crook to get users to update from 7 and 8.1 to 10!
When all the application based methods of ad injection are made unavailable on the application level, M$ will have its own built into the OS method of ad injection for a cut of the ad action available for the ad pushing industry! So M$ will even be charging Google and the other third party ad pushers a 30% cut of the action to be able to push ads through M$’s locked down and illegally vertically integrated third party “INDIPENDENTLY PRODUCED” OEM laptop/PC hardware that runs M$ windows 10.
M$ does not care about the Independent PC/Laptop OEMs, M$ only cares about its revenue stream, and If that means M$ has to become a hardware maker with its surface line of tablets, and eventually other Laptop/PC/Gaming devices, then so be it! M$ only needs to obtain an Apple Phone/Tablet level of the total PC/Laptop market OS devices market share locked down to its closed hardware/OS ecosystem to enable an Apple style revenue stream. M$ can Afford to lose some numbers of PC/Laptop users to other ecosystems, but M$ will employ any methods to entrap users into its Closed OS ecosystem.
M$ has the largest OS market share on the third party OEM produced PC/Laptop hardware on the market, and it has its own line of tablets, so M$ is on the way to becoming fully like Apple, and with an even more closed OS ecosystem than even Apple’s! Just look at Apple’s profitability with its small share of the PC/Laptop market, Apple makes more on phones and tablets. M$ has its surface line of tablets with 10 welded on, so M$ can do an end run around the PC/laptop hardware market more easily and become just like Apple. M$ does not want to totally push out the other ad market players, it just wants to charge the other ad market players to push ads onto M$’s vertically integrated/branded hardware, and M$ illegally vertically integrated third party PC/Laptop OEM manufactured hardware that runs a MS OS, windows 10 is the goal with the end user having no control over their hardware.
Steam OS could not have come online at a more important time, and eventually the makers of both PCs and Laptops will have to begin offering even more Steam OS based SKUs in order to stem the tide of total annihilation.
404 nobody cares.
enjoy
404 nobody cares.
enjoy linux…oh whats that? did your driver just break? HMM is your baby crying or is that your computer? oh gosh who has time for babies when you run linux LOLOLOLOLOL
keep up with those builds
Yet another brain dead poster
Yet another brain dead poster who doesn’t mind being led by the nose into slavery. The sad part is…he thinks you want to be led by the nose to.
I/we can only pray you wake up from you slumber.
you’ve been saying the same
you’ve been saying the same shit since windows 95
linux is the troll OS of the
linux is the troll OS of the internet. it has a toxic community proven by such posters.
M$ windows 10 is the illegal
M$ windows 10 is the illegal Monopoly OS of the third party OEM manufactured PC/Laptop market! Even Apple that originator of the closed OS ecosystem does not push its OS onto the third party PC/Laptop OEM market. M$ has turned the third party PC/Laptop OEMs into De Facto divisions of the big OS TRUST is Redmond! This is no different than the Standard Oil Trust before the government stepped in and broke it up! What M$ is doing with windows 10 is much worse than what it did with the browser market some years earlier, and the government antitrust agencies forced M$ to reverse its course on that issue also! M$ is taking over users third party manufactured OEM PC/Laptop hardware and removing user control over their own property! M$’s goal is an illegal vertical market integration onto the third party PC/Laptop OEM makers and by default the owners of that third party produced PC/Laptop hardware! It’s Time to bust the M$ OS TRUST!
The EU has a mandated OS choice with OEMs required to offer hardware free of any single OS requirement for third party produced PC/laptop hardware! So what about the users in the US getting the same freedoms in the land of the “Free”!
I use ABP, with Google+
I use ABP, with Google+ authentication, there is one tech site (highly trusted) that I go to that has had a script inserted into my Firefox browsing that shows that a script is borked.
List these as malware, please, and maybe the rest of the world will do so as well.
Microsoft is Skynet.
Microsoft is Skynet.
google is skynet
google is skynet
is skynet.
is skynet.
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└─> Government is skynet.
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└─> because the Government owns them ALL.
Microsoft needs to move their
Microsoft needs to move their a$$ in getting extensions for Edge browser, It is a stuttering mess because of intrusive ads and is unusable, Their old IE 11 is still better.
This anonymous guy is getting
This anonymous guy is getting really annoying. Let’s ban him/her, yeah?
On second thought, who the dickens uses the integrated windows protection thingy? Probably most people. Well, they shouldn’t.
hey hey i use DOS U should
hey hey i use DOS U should all use DOS cause i said so right.