Windows Update automatically changing user settings - again
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 12.10.2007
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
The new report comes on the heels of recent complaints regarding Windows Update performing stealth updates on users’ machines who had turned off Automatic Updates. (Microsoft officials subsequently explained that glitch by saying that Windows Update requires self-updating before it is able to recognize that new updates are available. Microsoft promised to be clearer, in the future, in communicating this requirement.)
The AeroXperience Web site reported a new Windows Update problem on October 10, and was told by Microsoft that the company was aware of the issue and were digging into what happened and why.
It’s hard to say how many users have been affected by this week’s Windows Update problem. The patch-setting override seems to not have affected users running the beta of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, though that is not 100 percent verified, AeroXP members said. It’s also not clear whether any Windows XP users were affected and/or whether Vista users who obtain their patches via Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) were hit with the same problem.
AeroXP member Rafael Rivera explained the malfunction this way:
“Woke up this morning to a Windows log in screen? Swear you set that option ‘Download updates but let me choose whether to install them’? We did too.
“In what appears to be a major glitch at Microsoft, Windows users are trickling in from across the globe reporting that their machines downloaded and installed updates they did not consent to. Rubbing salt in the wound, machines were also automatically and forcefully rebooted at the default 3am time frame.”
AeroXP quotes a Microsoft spokesperson who said the company currently is investigating the issue “regarding machines that are re-starting and having automatic updating settings set back to ‘Install Updates Automatically,’ despite having selected to be notified before installation of updates.” Users who’ve encountered the problem should contact Microsoft Support at http://support.microsoft.com/security, Microsoft suggested.
Any users out there who encountered this problem this week?
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Comments(18)
big brother is at it again....
to do a live update.
i have my settings the same as the op and i didnt wake to a reboot nor had my settings
changed. *shrug* maybe ms is out to get you?
i'm using xp ultimate and my settings stayed the same!
my settings is ok..not change nothing. using windowsxp professional and after last update
my os is more stability. thx microsoft....
i haven't any of that problems on my own computer but i saw this on computer of my
friend who had a problem with wga ( original product win xp pro sp2 couldn't been
recognized as a genuine ) and he had this problem with changing user settings in automatic
updates.
don't use the wrong cracked but the chinese's version
why do the above individuals focus mostly upon non activated versions, when everyone
might be concerned more with how a method exist to install new code without your consent.
you can be sure once said corporations get their way, like riaa and mpaa
monopolies, microsoft could just shut off your windows operating system, or the law
enforcement.
all it takes is yet another new law in favor of allowing this
type of behavior, as it's apparent now the technological method already exist to do so...
and if that law doesn't get pass, no problem, microsoft can enforce it's
ideology in other ways, like denying access unless proven to have the proper code or
permission.
better wake up and start caring about the political scene
effecting policies that create your environment.
i'm using xp and after downloading the updates windows restarted, even though i have the
setting "download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them."
i'm going to throw out an old word here.
predator
many here are
fairly saavy so do i need to throw out newer words?
how about two; predator
friendly
linux linux linux linux
mac os x
im sure some are running legit copies and some are pirated. if youre running pirated you
have no right whatsoever b!tching about what ms does to your machine. none.
sharing is evil you say? nobody shares with you, right?
what do you call a
pirate? illegal redistribution?
that's what the distributors want you to
think, claiming your all pirates for sharing your own culture! but the real truth of the
matter is since computers, the internet, blogging, bit torrent came along, now the people
can distribute themselves without having to wait and be told when and where they can
access and share their culture.
the distributors were a monopoly, and they only
view the means of distributing among individuals of society as a threat to their profits.
first, these distributors like mpaa for movies, and riaa for music and
microsoft for software (operating system and word processing) are monopolies, and they
don't actually create anything, as that requires the artist, the creators, the inventors
the programmers which are always people like you and i in a society! the monopolies just
distribute the work of individuals' is all.
and they profit for it, in the
billions of dollars. mpaa distributes all over the world just as microsoft or riaa the
works of individuals.
ask yourself, how many copies did riaa mass produce? why
should a ladt sharing for free, no profit, 24 songs be called a pirate, but riaa gets to
make billions of copies for profit?
doesn't that sound more like leeches of
society? microsoft is a monopoly, and it also leeches off of the society, claiming their
own our innovation, which we the people invented so they get to profit to sale it back to
us.
they just want to hold on to their monopolies. innovation always changes
how society functions, and lives. don't take my word for it, just look around...
how did steel, concrete, oil, electricity change the society you are living in?
imagine before steel, the wood industry had a monopoly on building, or brick until
concrete came along.
if you don't want society to share, to create, to
benefit from innovation, then by all means make everyone pirates, and deny them their
rights to share with each other innovation, their culture, the works of their society.
and what do you get for that, north korea, where no sharing is allowed, no
learning, nothing but work for the monopoly ruler!
we're talking about an os. stay on topic :)
i only just find out that my updates also turned into automatic, after i read this
article.
thanks god theres keznews.
keznwes rules!^^
glitch my ass, i can bet that this functionality is built into windows, what they mean by
glitch is that you are not supposed to see the updates they push to your system, you are
no longer the true admin of your system, microshit is,
free yourself, ..use
linux
similar if not the same thing.
i had my update settings on "notify but do not
download and install" for update, got a notice last friday that 1 update was available,
(not patch tuesday, maybe force patch friday!) insatlled it and thought nothing more of
it.
pc was sluggish all week, then it turns out my auto update settings, and
system restore settings are now back to default, and theres some kind of new popup in xp
when i access certain web content, similar to the vista access control popups. reset all
the settings back to what i had, and now everything is alot smoother.
would still
like to know exactly what happened tho.
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Big Brother..
By sjc1963 on 13.10.2007 - 02:10