What's infuriating is that I wouldn't mind this process at all if they just made it something you can run by hand. I wouldn't even care if it added a highlight in the start menu to point it out. But constantly re-asking for things I've repeatedly declined is the very definition of harrassment.

Is there a registry setting that disables SCOOBE completely? If not, maybe a service that hard-kills it if it ever detects it runnning?