This was brought to peoples attention when bitdefender began blocking the connections as “maliciousâ€�, spawning deep consern from users, reported by dozens of people on reddit. I have not seen any official documentation about this new feature available to the public.īITS (Background Intelligent Services) began connecting to google and downloading component updates for Google Chrome browsers in recent weeks, including for third party versions based on chromium such as Vivaldi, it started doing this silently in the background after a recent Windows Update, including on 1909.
I am not 100% certain this change to BITS is related but its highly compelling and something to look into further, just look at your BITS logs in event viewer to find it. Microsoft has been silently integrating Google Updates, or some aspect of it directly into BITS, here it is in action
