MS secretly updates your windows xp install
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MS secretly updates your windows xp install
Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users' knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses in this situation are objecting to the stealth patching. In recent days, Windows Update (WU) started altering files on users' systems without displaying any dialog box to request permission. The only files that have been reportedly altered to date are nine small executables on XP and nine on Vista that are used by WU itself. Microsoft is patching these files silently, even if auto-updates have been disabled on a particular PC.
It's surprising that these files can be changed without the user's knowledge. The Automatic Updates dialog box in the Control Panel can be set to prevent updates from being installed automatically. However, with Microsoft's latest stealth move, updates to the WU executables seem to be installed regardless of the settings — without notifying users. When users launch Windows Update, Microsoft's online service can check the version of its executables on the PC and update them if necessary. What's unusual is that people are reporting changes in these files although WU wasn't authorized to install anything.
source: http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070913/#story1
It's surprising that these files can be changed without the user's knowledge. The Automatic Updates dialog box in the Control Panel can be set to prevent updates from being installed automatically. However, with Microsoft's latest stealth move, updates to the WU executables seem to be installed regardless of the settings — without notifying users. When users launch Windows Update, Microsoft's online service can check the version of its executables on the PC and update them if necessary. What's unusual is that people are reporting changes in these files although WU wasn't authorized to install anything.
source: http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070913/#story1
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Lean toward ROS
I would lean more toward ReactOS than Win2k. 8)
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It was disabled?
From what I have read about it, those were disabled and yet MS was able to update files without the user knowing about it.
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While it would make some sense to put an update feature into ROS, it would still be open source, meaning that by virtue, your safe from that happening, or you know it can happen.
If somebody modifies it to do malicious things, than you would see that in the source. If they don't release source, than they are breaking the GPL, I believe, and you become very cautious.
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If somebody modifies it to do malicious things, than you would see that in the source. If they don't release source, than they are breaking the GPL, I believe, and you become very cautious.
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restarts?
Every so often my Win Vista would give a message that it will restart in a certain amount of time. I click 'postpone' but it keeps on giving the message until I restart it myself or click restart. I wish it would accept that I do not want to restart till I am ready. I don't want to restart when I am in the middle of something. 8)
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