That gives hackers enough command and control of your PC to do some serious damage. Microsoft warned that hackers that exploit the vulnerability could install programs, view and delete data or even create new user accounts with full user rights. They published a proof-of-concept online by mistake and subsequently deleted it - but not before it was published elsewhere online, including developer site GitHub. The researchers tweeted in late May that they had found vulnerabilities in Print Spooler, which allows multiple users to access a printer. Researchers at cybersecurity company Sangfor accidentally published a how-to guide for exploiting it. The security flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. In other words, they'll have even less incentive.Microsoft is urging Windows users to immediately install an update after security researchers found a serious vulnerability in the operating system. After that date, people will have to pay to upgrade. That freebie, though, is due to end July 29, the one-year anniversary of version 10's debut. "We added the additional notification based on user feedback and to ensure customers had an opportunity to change or cancel the schedule for the upgrade to Windows 10."įollowing the debacle of the little-loved Windows 8, Microsoft has been working hard to convince people to jump to Windows 10, which is available for free to users of Windows 7 or 8.1.
"We updated Windows 10 to a 'Recommended' update for Windows 7 & 8.1 customers whose Windows settings are configured to accept 'Recommended' updates on Thursday, May 12, 2016," a Microsoft spokeswoman said. You'll then find Windows 10 on your PC sometime over the next several days without realizing that you agreed to it. If you click the OK button, thinking you're just getting rid of the message, the automatic update is scheduled.
Kinda sneaky, isn't it? Especially compared with the messages you've been seeing. If you don't want the software update or if you want to change the installation date, you have to take deliberate action: manually click a link in the message, then choose to reschedule it or cancel it altogether. Instead of simply giving you the option to install its latest operating system (or not), Microsoft now automatically schedules a date and time to update your PC to Windows 10. Users of Windows 7 and 8.1 have become familiar with - jaded by, even - the insistent, seemingly daily popups urging them to "Get Windows 10." Those messages have started taking a more aggressive turn. Microsoft has a new way of trying to get Windows 10 onto your computer, whether you want it or not.
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