i couldnt give a monkeys tbh, but might explain why my computer has been getting random lag spikes while playing games, and the occasional mad whirring of my HDD lasting 20 minutes or so more (its loud when it spins ^^)

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All this does is cement my case for switching to Apple OS X

Microsoft forcing updates down your throat you don't need? Man that's crazy

My best suggestion is that we set our firewalls to lock incoming traffic of Windows update. That may stop it all

but what about corporate?

i could only guess that MS is acting as an NSA shill, just like AT&T, Sprint, Cingular, and the rest. what other logical explanation there could be eludes me, since MS says they don't even support XP now - writing patches for an OS you're not supporting is pretty weird in the first place, installing them secretly is just plain suspect.

i wouldn't be surprised if these 'patches' are actually performance downgrades, special little errors designed to anger you and make XP break down more frequently, and waste more memory so as to make Vista look better by comparison. (uh.. i think i'd like to keep the 1 gb of kingston i have installed for use in games... not my OS???)

vista is a footnote, directX10 is a lousy gimmick, and microsoft is lumbering woolly mammoth with a bad leg and a handful of cavemen with pointy objects chasing it

(making mp3 players Bill? that's pretty lame for a company that claims to have revolutionized computing... )

and what's the betting that the stealth updates are WGA-related It's not like the people in Redmond are exactly shy about updates and patches, seeing as they have to produce them on a weekly basis. If you're paying for Windows Live Care, they can be shoving anything into your kit and you pay them for the privilege of doing something that you could do yourself just as easily for free anyway. I just don't understand how anyone could sign up for that.

"All this does is cement my case for switching to Apple OS X"

to some extent, but then you can have Apple's vulnerabilities rather than Microsoft's, and still be tied into the corporate-retail trap. But you might get a free i-Beard. Why spend more money, a lot more, when you can get a better result by putting Linux on your existing kit for nothing? I wish you'd pay me some of this cash that you splurge around so freely, I'd give better service and the result you wanted, much cheaper.





Edited by - Tawakalna on 9/16/2007 2:57:37 AM

Is this the tool that'll popup to say "windows updates available". You may turn off automatic updates, but doesn't that thing still appear? Ergo, is it not updating itself?

Having said that, those barstewards at Orange update my phone without giving me an option, the skybox we used to have did the same! *shakes fist*

Nothing new.
Would like to know exactly what it's updating though

Edited by - Chips on 9/16/2007 3:02:02 AM

dosnt surprise me...

the thing is, my Desktop is not hooked up to the inet, so i suppose i wont have that problem, but as soon as i do, i probably wont be able to use it for an hour or so, cause everything will be trying to update all at once...

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I really can't see what the problem is. In both cases, the files mentioned (aside from XP's cdm.dll - I have absolutely no idea what that is) appear to be related to Windows Update. So MS is stealthily updating Windows Update? Oh noez?

Maybe it's different for everyone else, but I don't want to be badgered every five minutes by WU asking if I want to check for updates when they're only released once a week or something.

From the article:

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Again, it's important to note that there's nothing harmful about the updated files themselves. There are no reports of software conflicts and no reason to remove the files (which WU apparently needs in order to access the latest patches). The only concern is the mechanism Microsoft is using to perform its patching, and how this mechanism might be used by the software giant in the future.

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It seems that Chips hit the nail square on the head here.