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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. Re:Why? Re:Block it by kestasjk · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, this is why I run Linux 2.2 and make sure Firefox has auto-update disabled; if they can convince me to update the software on my computer, or (heaven forbid) do it automatically, next thing they'll be brainwashing me and giving me anal probes.

    By the way this update is probably Microsoft doing something incredibly evil, like fixing bugs or updating a protocol or something.

    Tomorrows news: Security hole found in Windows, but Microsoft are refusing to provide a way to close the security hole without installing unwanted and potentially devastating new code.

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    // MD_Update(&m,buf,j);