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Old November 14th 18, 05:18 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Rather fine booboo on MS's part! Or, update mechanism has been hacked ...

In message , Paul
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OK, now I see what you're talking about.

I didn't realize you could get a EULA prompt in
the Windows Update dialog, microseconds after clicking the
install button (after making your selections in the list).


No, I hadn't seen one before either.

https://i.postimg.cc/X7P6G6qj/MSRT-EULA.gif

Paul

I _think_ that's the same as mine http://255soft.uk/temp/Clipboard01.jpg
(other than Window colour); I couldn't tell for sure at the default zoom
level, and when I clicked on it I got a full-window blank rectangle, so
I presume i.postimg.cc runs some script when you click-to-zoom-in.

Anyway, which do you think is the case - someone at MS has boobed and
used (and set whatever flag makes it pop up) some ancient EULA and
accepting it will actually install (and probably run) the November 2018
MSRT, or: the update site has been hacked and it's malware? (_Seems_
unlikely, as I'd have thought any hacker good enough to have hacked that
site wouldn't have caused the popup.)

Or, of course, they've had a real brain fart, and if you proceed it'll
try to install XP-SP2 pre-release version on your Windows 7 machine!
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