The mystery continues: Why are Windows machines automatically updating
themselves?
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| So, it doesn’t seem to be Automatic Update (AU) or the patches themselves at
| fault. So what caused last Past Tuesday’s patches to be installed
| automatically and machines to be rebooted for a group of users who had chosen
| not to allow automatic installation of patches — as originally reported on
| the AeroXperience site? It’s still not clear whether it is Vista only (or
| also XP) that is affected and whether Windows Software Update Services (WSUS)
| users have seen the same problem.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=832
Related:
Back doors in Windows XP...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlNTEQ0RzM
Mother of all spyware...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
Police eats your CPU cycles and disk space...
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| Vista—Microsoft’s latest operating system—may prove to be most
| appropriately named, especially for those seeking evidence of how a
| computer was used.
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http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
German government admits it is already conducting online searches
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| Piltz called on the German government to block funding for the
| programming of software used in online searches; she also said it
| was urgent that the government "discontinue these searches until
| the German Supreme Court has reached a ruling on the matter."
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/88895/from/rss09
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