Is Windows 10 Faking Disk Corruption Notifications to force a scan/upload of user files?
I'm pretty certain Windows 10 is faking the notification that a "newly seen" External USB Drive needs to be scanned for errors. I run multiple OSs and USB drives and these only ever flag as corrupted on Windows 10, generally the first time the drive is seen by the system.
A side effect of Microsoft Defender is to then scan the drive, and potentially upload any suspicious files to Microsoft, depending on Privacy settings. Seems like a clever way to get round privacy laws.
Needs a bit more analysis to compare the an image of the USB drive before and after, to see if any real changes are made to the disk structure. Previously unseen USB drives seemed to get flagged far more under Windows 10 though.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
