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I installed two updates today on a Windows 7 machine. One was KB3035583, which was purported to fix problems with Windows. The other was a malware definitions update.

KB3035583 turned out to be Microsoft's Marketing Malware known as Get Windows 10. It did not fix anything, it misrepresented itself to get installed, and it has created problems (q.v.).

In the old days, we could set kill bits on Active X controls that were effectively malware or dangerous. I'd like to include KB3035583 in a similar list on this machine and my other test machines.

How does one Blacklist a patch based on Knowledge Based/KB number?

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  • On Windows 7, you can right-click on the update and click 'Hide Update'. I'm sure there's a way to do it in the registry, but I'm sure that's unneeded. Also, for future reference, any update beginning with KB3 is for Windows 10 as far as I know. Sorry I cannot be of more help, but that's all I can suggest in hopes of solving your issue easily, though I can see from your profile that you're beyond me in experience. – Dooley_labs Oct 07 '15 at 02:30
  • The problem with *Hide Update* is it goes away if you delete ...\System32\SoftwareDistribution\*. Doing so recovers 100's of MBs to GBs; and it clears the history in control panel. I do it frequently. – jww Oct 07 '15 at 15:03
  • How about this one then: /722667/how-to-hide-updates-in-windows-updates-without-gui? I've also been seeing things about a program named "WSUS"... consider looking into that? – Dooley_labs Oct 07 '15 at 15:11

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