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Mystery Of Microsoft's Automatic Updates
News As first reported on Windows user group AeroXperience, last week the automatic updates feature caused some Windows machines to reboot. We have received some logs from customers, and have so far been able to determine that their AU [automatic update...
[October 16, 2007, 17:14]
Beware Of Automatic Updates For XP
News Automatic updates may spell trouble Can any security specialist or IT manager concerned with simplifying system maintenance really trust Microsoft to make automatic patches to their systems? The following day, it was announced that around 20MB of...
[November 9, 2001, 11:31]
Beware Of Automatic Updates For XP
Talkback And I am just wondering if one of the updates has stopped me getting into one of my operating systems? The first thing I found was when I went to read the other letters, I couldn`t, I kept getting a 404 error, I wonder why Microsoft don`t want us...
[May 31, 2004, 21:02]
Windows Patches May Become Automatic
News Microsoft is considering changing the way that Windows updates security patches, making the update process automatic by default, following the latest round of security problems for Windows users. Currently, automatic updates are available as an...
[August 21, 2003, 13:30]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback I do not like the idea of automatic updates. I believe customers and people in general should be able to have a choice to opt out of automatic updates. I understand MS is all about the almighty dollar and bottom line.
[October 15, 2003, 1:47]
Security Experts Voice IE7 Push Concerns
News Microsoft's plan to push Internet Explorer 7 out via Automatic Updates has alarmed some security experts. IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare...
[July 27, 2006, 15:05]
Privacy Issues
Talkback Although I don't use an unauthorised copy of Vista, I have heard that the Frankenbuild of Vista will still disable itself even if automatic updates have been turned off. This suggests that either Vista has a phone home mechanism built in to...
[December 18, 2006, 13:54]
Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus
Downloads Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software. Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system. Version 8 adds an enhanced interface, a modularized AV-search engine...
[August 21, 2008, 17:16]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback Hey guess what fuckstick, you didn't authorize the seven automatic updates that came before this one either, but I didn't hear you complaining then, asshole. Depending upon which and how many XBL titles he owns there could have been as many as 20...
[October 17, 2003, 22:19]
GeneNET Web Browser
Downloads This Web browser also has automatic updates, for those who hate the nagging updating machine. Manual labor for the program = 0 , automatic labor = 10. Version 2 includes unspecified updates. GeneNET Web Browser is a fast Internet Web browser that...
[May 9, 2008, 11:16]
Service Pack 2 Gets The Green Light
News The update should be distributed to approximately 100 million PCs through automatic updates during the next two months, Microsoft said. Microsoft will make the free update available via download and via CD, but it is recommending that customers...
[August 9, 2004, 8:45]
Microsoft Struggles To Push Out IE7
News Everyone who uses an English language version of Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Automatic Updates enabled should receive a notice to upgrade to IE7 by the end of January, said Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of IE product management.
[November 14, 2006, 16:36]
Microsoft Leaves Word Flaws Unpatched
News Microsoft does recommend that all customers sign up for Microsoft Update and enable its Automatic Updates functionality to receive all updates available this month and to help make their systems more secure," a Microsoft representative said in an...
[January 10, 2007, 8:52]
Microsoft Delays Release Of Update Tool
News Also, Microsoft developers are busy with a new Automatic Updates agent that will be incorporated into Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), a long-awaited revamp of Windows XP. The necessary integration of Automatic Updates into SP2, and required...
[July 13, 2004, 16:35]
Mac-clone Company Offers Custom Updates
News The company said it planned to begin offering updates directly via Mac OS X's own Automatic Updates mechanism, but has not yet done so. We will begin releasing safe updates through the operating system's Automatic Updates and will require all of...
[May 28, 2008, 11:22]
ZoneAlarm Glitches Hit Eudora, McAfee Users
News It will also be pushed out to existing customers - if they have automatic updates - in a rolling release schedule. People who don't have automatic updates can download the latest version of ZoneAlarm products from Zone Labs' Web site.
[June 21, 2006, 9:20]
Microsoft To Push Out Revised Validation Tool
News We received a lot of feedback that people wanted more information when the package came down through Automatic Updates and was offered to them," Lazar said. Users get the tool the same way they receive security updates, via Automatic Updates or...
[November 29, 2006, 8:21]
Windows Driver Updates
Blog Windows XP is very "laissez-faire" about such updates; I have occasionally seen one show up in Windows Update for XP under "Optional Updates", but I don't recall ever having seen one as a mandatory or automatic update.
[May 13, 2008, 12:49]
Microsoft Patches Firewall Problems
News This is why we encourage our customers to enable automatic updates within Windows -- so that they can receive not just security updates, but also nonsecurity-related improvements or enhancements," Microsoft said.
[February 25, 2005, 8:40]
Microsoft Offers WGA Workaround
News Automatic Updates is a service intended to keep users secure by delivering software updates and drivers that help protect against the latest publicly known security threats and reliability issues. While Microsoft is responding to some of the...
[June 28, 2006, 11:20]
