diff --git a/test/kitchen/site-cookbooks/dd-security-agent-check/recipes/windows.rb b/test/kitchen/site-cookbooks/dd-security-agent-check/recipes/windows.rb
index 726128240986b..7b957d0e99c5a 100644
--- a/test/kitchen/site-cookbooks/dd-security-agent-check/recipes/windows.rb
+++ b/test/kitchen/site-cookbooks/dd-security-agent-check/recipes/windows.rb
@@ -43,10 +43,6 @@
 end
 
 
-execute 'winupdate-stop' do
-  command "powershell -C \"Stop-Service -Name wuauserv -Force\""
-end
-
 execute 'wix-extract' do
   cwd tmp_dir
   command "powershell -C \"Add-Type -A 'System.IO.Compression.FileSystem'; [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('wix311-binaries.zip', 'wix');\""