Confirmed: Microsoft is fiddling with system files without permission

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Update: After checking a system set not to automatically update I can
confirm that this stealth update is real.

[To rest of the article reflects his earlier understanding, in which
he was not sure that the update was real.]

If this turns out to be true, it has some very serious (and
disturbing) implications:

Microsoft Corp. has started updating files on computers running
Windows XP and Vista, even when users have explicitly disabled the
operating systems' automatic update feature, researchers said today.

[XP and Vista do the update without notification. List of files
supplied.]
[Serious betrayal, will lead to all kinds of trouble.]

On top of that, it paves the way for companies to make silent updates
to technologies such as DRM and anti-piracy features.

Microsoft needs to address this issue and address it fast because the
fallout from this could be very damaging.
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[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=774[/url]

[email]nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu[/email] wrote:
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> Microsoft Corp. has started updating files on computers running
> Windows XP and Vista, even when users have explicitly disabled the
> operating systems' automatic update feature, researchers said today.[/color]

One more reason not have Windows any where near You or Your network.

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____/ Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas on Thursday 13 September 2007 18:44 :
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> [email]nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu[/email] wrote:
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>> Microsoft Corp. has started updating files on computers running
>> Windows XP and Vista, even when users have explicitly disabled the
>> operating systems' automatic update feature, researchers said today.[/color][/color]

Didn't you hear? Microsoft knows better than the owner of the PC. When Windows
is installed, the user, who paid for a licence to use the software, is no
longer in control of the PC.
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> One more reason not have Windows any where near You or Your network.[/color]


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