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Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide
An anonymous reader writes: If you're using Windows 7 you might want to be careful about which updates you install. Users on Windows forums are worried about a new "important" update that looks a little suspect. Ars reports: "'Clearly there's something that's delivered into the [Windows Update] queue that's trusted,' Kenneth White, a Washington DC-based security researcher, told Ars after contacting some of the Windows users who received the suspicious update. 'For someone to compromise the Windows Update server, that's a pretty serious vector. I don't raise the alarm very often but this has just enough characteristics of something pretty serious that I think it's worth looking at.'" UPDATE: Microsoft says there's nothing to worry about, the company "incorrectly published a test update."
Perhaps it's just me, but on days like this it almost looks like sacking thousands of QA employees might not have been the smartest idea ever.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
You mean that Windows 10 wasn't intended to be patently evil, it's just that Microsoft are idiots?