Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Sep 2007 14:02 UTC, submitted by tux68
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. "Normal behaviour," according to Microsoft.
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2006-11-08
I don't have evidence for the thing he discribed, but I set it to "Notify, but don't download or install".
). I clicked on cancel since I wanted to do this later, after doing some work.
Yesterday evening I booted Windows and two updates were shown: The one security update and that "tool to remove baad software" (no, I don't know the correct english names for that
Half an hour later there was just ONE update left. Guess which one it was.
Okay, that's not really much "evidence" since you can't really prove that without making a video. Guess you just have to believe me here.