Does Microsoft’s Self-Signed BGAupsell.exe Qualify As Malware?

It’s Actually At Least As Annoying As The Outdated <BLINK> Tag

Microsoft continues it’s marketing campaign to push Edge on customers, and as is custom they’ve put their foot of their mouth once more.  This time, they bypassed Window’s notification system utterly and are operating an executable referred to as BGAupsell.exe to harass you.  The file will get dumped in c:windowstempmubstemp and is digitally signed by Microsoft, not precisely essentially the most safe observe for distributing a pop up asking you to change to Edge.

Ars Technica have seen a few examples, and The Verge has a shot of it showing overtop of a full display sport.  It will definitely not endear Microsoft nor it’s browser with somebody wrapped up in a frantic sport.  Microsoft has determined to pause the rollout of BGAupsell.exe to extra customers, apparently considerably stunned by the overwhelmingly unfavorable suggestions they obtained.  This shock shouldn’t be sudden, earlier pop ups and Bing search hijacking while you wish to obtain a unique browser have all been tried earlier than and have been all detested, but they preserve attempting.