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Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission

Posted by kdawson on from the slipperiest-of-slopes dept.

Futurepower(R) writes "Even though I have Automatic Updates turned off, on August 28, 2007, between 3:49 and 3:51 AM PDT, Microsoft installed new files on my Windows XP computer." Nine files are updated on Vista and on XP SP1, a different set of on each, relating to Windows Update itself. Microsoft-watch.com's Joe Wilcox and ZDnet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes confirm the stealth update.

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  1. Hmm.... by TechnoBunny · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I cant see how anyone on /. would ever object.

    Anyone want popcorn?

  2. This reveals MS Secret loves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does wmbla stand for Windows Man Boy Love Association???

    Boy I need to spend time away from the interweb

  3. Can't Win for... by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Funny

    /.er:Windows is insecure, Microsoft is evil.

    /.er:Where are my patches?

    /.er:You're evil because you patched my system.

    MS:O.k., we'll make a system the user can run and patch them system that way.

    /.er:You're evil because most lusers won't set it up properly and the net will be taken over by these luser's machines.

    MS:O.k, we'll patch the system involuntarily.

    /.er:You're evil for patching my system that way.

    MS: You've made a career at being happy with whatever prevails, right?

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  4. Re:omg hackers by mhall119 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That could take hours, bitching takes mere seconds. Here on /. we strive for efficiency, not accuracy.

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  5. Re:What's the IP address? by walt-sjc · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know the one you are talking about. Has this thing about "chairs".

  6. Re:omg hackers by enrevanche · · Score: 4, Funny

    Repeat after me, "I will never ever again use the words slashdot and efficiency in the same sentence."

  7. Re:omg hackers by mhall119 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Repeat after me, "I will never ever again use the words slashdot and efficiency in the same sentence." I would, but repeating that statement would immediately violate it.
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  8. Re:Why? Re:Block it by The+Rizz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I say we take off and nuke the website from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  9. Re:Why? Re:Block it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because it's pirated and MS hasn't found the key yet.

  10. Re:Why? Re:Block it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Microsoft can run code on your box, I'd expect some other people can too. l33t crackers, the government. What would stop them?

    The law? Oh wait...

    -Alberto Gonzalez

  11. Re:You couldn't be more wrong. by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would just like to point out that he could, in fact, have been more wrong. He could have stated, for instance, that Microsoft is run by dolphins from an secret underwater base in the artic.

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  12. Re:Why? Re:Block it by Mike+Morgan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe there is a clause in the EULA that prohibits nuking Redmond from orbit.

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