An explanation of Windows Update automatic updating:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...c-updates.aspx
The above Vista Team blog entry seems to be a little more transparent:
QP
This self-updating is done regardless of whether the user has enabled
automatic checking, download and/or installation of updates. It does so in
an effort to avoid WU misleading the user to think s/he is up-to-date simply
because s/he was not receiving notification that updates are available. Put
another way, WU cannot alert the user that there are security updates
available if it is not in the necessary updated state that will allow it to
recognize those updates...
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Tom [Pepper] Willett wrote:
How Windows Update Keeps Itself Up-to-Date
http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/...p-to-date.aspx
"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
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Adam Albright wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:05:43 -0600, Bruce Chambers
wrote:
Silicon neuron wrote:
Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without
users' knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.
Actually, this is *not* being done _without_ user consent. Just the
opposite. Every user of each operating systems has been given advance
notice that such things could happen, and has consented to it.
Read the Vista EULA. Section 7 makes it clear that this could happen:
Yea sure, and I bet most people aren't aware that buried deep in the
EULA Microsoft claims the right to your first born and anybody in
Redmond above a certain rank can have sex with your wife or girl
friend if a there's a fifth Saturday in any month. Better check your
calendar. ;-)
Sarcasm aside, I'm glad to see that for once you agree that the EULA
does so stipulate and that all users have given their consent. It's not
often you let facts get in the way of your rabid anti-Microsoft stance.
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