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Re: Microsoft performing unauthorized updates
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2007-09-15 14:55:58

The URL below didn't work, and I was unable to locate the article
using the search function on eWEEK's web site.

At 06:20 PM 9/14/2007, you wrote:

>Amid reports that Microsoft's Automatic Updates was performing unauthorized
>updates of itself, Microsoft Watch's Joe Wilcox asked eWEEK Labs to check to
>see whether the allegations were true. Combing through the Event Viewer logs
>;on several computers I maintain, I discovered on two different
>machines--both running Windows XP with Service Pack 2--the signs of an
>unauthorized update.
>eWEEK Labs is going over the EULAs to see if there was implicit
>authorization given for the updates.
>By Andrew Garcia
&gt;<<http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=%26s=25932%26a=215177%26po=1>http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=%26s=25932%26a=215177%26po=1
&gt;,00.asp&gt;

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