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Good Guy Microsoft: Forced Windows 10 Upgrade Kicks Out TeamViewer Hacker


A fresh petition has begun against Change.org for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to examine the upgradation policy of Microsoft's Windows 10. The EFF is leading not for profit organization, which defends the civil liberties in digital world.

Electronic Frontier Foundation advises the policymakers, as well as educates the public and press via comprehensive analysis, activist workshops, educational guides, and more. The primary issue stated in petition is regarding Microsoft forcing the Windows 10 updates. Additionally, there are a few claims regarding user tracking.

However, forced upgrade of Windows 10 has worked favoring one of the users, who was secured from the latest TeamViewer hack. As per the Reddit user, latest TeamViewer hack impacted him, when the hacker who enters his PC could not do any damage on the grounds that GWX choose to upgrade it to Windows 10.

Upgrade process of Windows 10 has kicked out the hacker; since he was disengaged from PC due to non-availability of network connection. Techradar.com posted on June 6th, 2016, stating that mainly this appeared only for those wanting to upgrade already, but lack of cancel option may still remain as a concern for some.

The scheduling was the most recent Microsoft maneuver for raising customers' hackles, mainly because of the fact that the notification expects approval of user when red "X" was clicked by someone for closing the frame.

Obviously, it is very difficult to really confirm this story, so never take it for granted, however surely it is something you would not usually expect while getting hacked. In this scenario, the upgradation to Windows 10 has proved pretty helpful; and it would not be surprising to find that the user who got past this, continues running the OS as a token of appreciation.

What's more, here's one final inquiry: what if hacker who enter the PC has obsession of keeping computers fully updated and he is the person who have launched that upgrade? Possibly it is good guy hacker, and not good Microsoft guy.

This is not great news as the process of upgrade was forced, and it impacted the applications that a user may have required.

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