Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Oct 2007 20:03 UTC, submitted by Geonon
Microsoft has apologized for a Windows Server update that automatically installed the Windows Desktop Search tool on users' desktops without approval. The mistake happened because Microsoft reused the same update package for when WDS was first published in February as an optional update that was only applicable to systems with the search tool previously installed. 
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2007-10-11
I have disabled automatic updates years ago during the era of Win95 as I found they made the system unstable and conflicted with each other. Now I tried to enable it again in hope somewhat changed over years. And first what it did was installation of this search panel. Fortunately I found uninstall ingformation in recycle bin and removed it quickly.
Edited 2007-10-29 20:59