I am definitely not interested in W10, unless M$ makes major improvements in privacy, and to increase user controls - which seems unlikely, from what I hear (to date).

I am even becoming reluctant to allow Windows Update access to my W7-W8-W8.1 computers, because they're now getting some of the same type of spyware and loss of user control too. So of course I have Windows Updates set to manual (not automatic), and it will remain ever so!

The only way is apparently to get a list of the offending spyware/controlware KB numbers and doublecheck it each month vs the offered Windows Updates - to exclude/hide them. But considering the large number of updates involved, month to month, that's going to be a lot of trouble over the next few years!

Any suggestions on an easier way to handle this?
Thanks.
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Auric