Thursday 1 March 2018

Suspicious Windows 10 Printer Update?

I’ve been seeing this in my Windows 10 update after receiving a notification that it failed to install:

Canon - Printer - 4/21/2000 12:00:00 AM - 10.0.17046.1000
Status: Awaiting install


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It seems I’m not alone in spotting this rather odd and somewhat suspicious issue:

See:


For now I am trying the “Show or hide updates” troubleshooter package from Microsoft which you can find here: