Microsoft Stealth Update?


Auto-update hanky panky at Microsoft [Slashdot]?

Looks like this is everywhere:  [Todd Bishop ("Controversy over 'stealth' Windows Update installs"); cNet ("Microsoft Downplays Stealth Windows Update File Updates"); ZDNet ("Confirmed: Microsoft is Fiddling With System Files Without Permission")].

An editor's note to Microsoft Watch makes me wonder if a mountain is being made out of a molehill:
In its newsletter, Windows Secrets used "turned off" and "disabled" to describe Windows Update's behavior. On, Sept. 13, we asked for clarification. Dunn said that Windows Secrets meant disabled, not turned off. Windows Secrets considers disabled to mean Windows Update settings two and three (see above list). A blog posted today by Nate Clinton, Microsoft's Windows Update program manger, confirms that Windows Update self-updates without user intervention when the setting is either option two or three.
That's one EULA which is going to be pored over in the near future.  Only time will tell.
 
Posted by Venkat at 9/13/2007 3:59 PM
Categories: Spyware, ETIQUETTE, Business, Privacy
 
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