Peaches Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Is Windows Installing Updates Without Permission?Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Windows is installing "surprise updates" against the wishes of some users, who have expressly set up the operating system not to deploy patches without permission, researchers charged today.Numerous readers of the popular Windows Secrets newsletter have reported that they have watched their PCs install updates from the June 9 set of security patches as they've rebooted or when they've turned on their machines, said Brian Livingston, the newsletter's editorial director. Those users have set options in Windows Update (WU), the operating system's default update service, to require their okay before installing patches, or before downloading and installing updates.More on this topic pcworld - http://www.pcworld.com/article/167352/is_w...hout_permission Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Well maybe they need to make them mandatory if you connect to the internet to keep these unpatched machines from spreading viruses and becomming members of botnets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 From what I understand, when it does happen, it's due to an error of some kind. Generally a previously failed update that "upsets" the "permissions" you've set. Essentially Windows says, "OK, you SAID I could install this older update, but it didn't work so we'll try again, and since we got your permission already why not install all these other updates while we're at it?" "They're working on it." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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