I see a lot of people are trying to do regedit, disabling scheduled tasks and even reinstalling drivers.
I took a different approach to this, I'm fortunate enough to have a decent firewall that allows me to control which ports are accessible to specific IP addresses.
What I did to prevent this shitty microshaft update to hit my servers was by blocking all external incoming and outgoing ports on the fixed IP addresses of my mining rigs EXCEPT the specific port the mining software requires to connect to the mining pool for Ethermine it's port 4444).

I'm using a Watch Guard firewall, it's an expensive firewall but there are other manufacturers that provide similar features.
I have never tested this solution using the Windows Firewall, but I imagine that M$ is smart enough to get around their own built-in firewall.
The surest way is to block all incoming and outgoing traffic on a network level and ONLY allow specific ports needed for mining and remote management.

If you already got hit by this dumb update, I would highly suggest restoring an earlier backup of your windows OS if you have one.
If you do not have a backup prior of the windows update, do what you can by uninstalling the update, removing scheduled tasks in the windows update and updateOrcastrator directory and deleting the update files from the System32 directory.

 

It took about 18 business days for me to get my UQUID card, I havent had any problems with it since the day I received it (other than having trouble finding my pin, it was in my junk inbox).


From my personal experience, I wouldn't say that UQUID is a scam since they were operating perfectly up to July of 2017 when Visa changed their policy.
Between July up to late December they have been working on integrating their new card issuing company into their system so that everything works the way it used to.
I don't know how large UQUID's dev team is but I can say it was a long 5 month wait. I purchased my card on Dec 5th 2017 and I activated my card on Dec 23th.
It is possible that they have put you in queue to prep and ship out your card. Keep in mind, they had to send a card to everyone that previously had one before their service went down back in July (that is including myself).

I have to admit, their rates are shitty but just recently 5 companies (Bitwala, Cryptopay, Wirex, ShakePay and TenX) went down because of Visa's policy change.
UQUID is the only one left standing right now that's providing service to countries that are also outside of EU.
I would have to give them some credit for switching to another card issuing company before the shit hit the fan.
I'm not saying UQUID is perfect, but to me it's better than having nothing.

Monthly Card fees is just 1$.
Update, I was able to load my card into my account. I guess they finished integrating their systems.
I will test deposit and card load and see how long it takes in total now.

**Edit**
200$USD was deposited into my account within 15mins, I'm actually impressed.
I guess UQUID has their shit back together.
I see that everyone is stuck getting their funds loaded from their account onto the card.
I'm getting an error saying: "Card service is not available now. Please try again later.".
I'm not really sure what UQUID is doing about this, I'm assuming that they are in the process of integrating their website with the card issuers API to deposit funds onto the card instantly.
Hopefully this will be sorted out in the following weeks.

I have just deposited 200$USD (using ETC) into my UQUID account today.
I will post again once I can load the 200$ onto the card. For this transaction it says 'pending'.
In their FAQ section it says it could take up to 72 hours to verify it, back in the day (July/16) it would be almost instantly deposited.
Their price for ETC is ridiculous, I sent them 236$USD (9.1583 ETC) worth of coins but they only fill 200$ and say that "there are no fees".
I checked out all other types of deposits and they are all asking ~36$ extra for any kind of coin deposit.
Always check the amount of coins they're asking for and compare the amount to the market, they are overpricing the sh*t out of these deposits.

For now, I have no choice since there's no other option for a 'crypto debit card' solution.
If anyone out there can refer me to another cryptocard that ships to Canada, Please let me know cause I really need a better solution.

After hearing that people can't deposit funds into their account its kinda worrying me.

From my earlier comment I mentioned that they're taking a 37$ from that specific transaction, which I didn't complete.
All I did was request a deposit to see what I would pay, and now on my account I have a "Pending Transaction" notice.
My fear is that if I were to deposit funds into my account it'll just say "Pending" the whole time.

Is that whats's happening to everyone else? Where are you getting stuck in the depositing part?

Yea uquid has been facing a lot of technical problems because of the whole VISA policy change, they had a good thing going for a while right up until July of 2017.
I don't know how many developers they have working on this issue, or what problems they're dealing with. But I don't think this is a large company at all, or else they would've sent out a mass e-mail to all of their users advising them about their current issues.
I was able to load my card a few days ago, not sure why you're having issues.
I'll try to load some money again and I'll let you know if it goes through or not. With my experience, bank wire transfer never worked for me.
Just today, I wanted to test it by depositing 100$ worth of ETC, they are charging me 138$USD worth of ETC in exchange for $100 to be deposited into my account. That exchange rate to me is ridiculous, worse than Coinbase.
UQUID needs to upgrade their game on the client support, I'm sure it's just one person dealing with Skype and Telegram support line.

bro i love you... I feel like such a dumbass right now. its 3:42am in Montreal right now and I just checked my junk mail and found the email.
I didn't have to do anything to activate my card. All i did was upload my documents to get KYC2 and now I can load it.
This whole time Ive been harrasing UQUID support line for it and it was in my junk mail the whole time.

UQUID, if you're reading this, I'm sorry. I will buy ur ICO <3

Also, while I was going though this craziness I saw that Paynetics has a support phone number on their site (+359 2 806 56 14).
Turns out that the phone number listed on their website belongs to a Bulgarian Hotel, the owner speaks broken english, so don't bother with them.
UQUID number is still not reponding, neither are they on Skype or Telegram. They need to hire a bunch of people to cover the support line.
On another note, I'm very happy to know that the bitcoin community responded quicker than the UQUID team.
Thanks to you I can now go to sleep with a piece of mind.

I am having the same issue, I have loaded my card with 120$USD and they havent given me the PIN to buy things in store, or get cash from the ATM.
I tried their support page, Skype, Telegram, Support Email. No Response what-so-ever.
I wouldn't want to call them a scam since they did work back in March, but ever since then it's just been a bad experience.
I think they are still in the process of integrating Paynetics into their system cause I'm noticing a lot of small changes in the members area.
Hopefully they get this stuff sorted out soon.

I am from Montreal, Canada.

Here's a news update, UQUID is now issuing cards to most international countries.
I just received my card today. Their service is back up and running as it used to.

They have not fixed this issue since Aug 2017 and I don't think it will be solved anytime soon.
If you live outside of Europe there aren't any plastic cards you can get.
I live in Montreal, Canada and I cannot find any company that will issue BTC or Altcoin debit cards.
I have tried the following companies (some may work in US):
-UQUID
-CryptoPay
-Monaco
-Xapo
-TenX
-Wirex
-SpectroCoin
-AdvCash
-ShakePay
-SHIFT
-BitWala
-SatoshiTango

And none of these companies can issue cards outside of Europe, all because of Visa (or mastercard, I forget) changed their policy.
The only option I can think of is either to get a virtual card from Wirex. I have been able to get a virtual card from Wirex but I haven't tested it yet by making a purchasing with it.
I'm still looking for ways to sell bitcoins for cash but there aren't that many options.
UQUID is a good option to go with but I would wait until you register, their fees are somewhat low but they only issue USD, GBP or EUR cards; which means you can only spend that kind of fiat currency.
Here is a link to their fees site.

https://uquid.com/features-and-limits