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Posted in Microsoft dispels rumors of stealth Windows updates
Posted Friday 14th September 2007 13:39 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Easy solution

If you're running Windows, always have Automatic Updates completely off, and use a good (i.e. third party) firewall and AV to protect you in the absence of patches that might be applied by Windows Update.

Been doing it for years, haven't been hit yet. Among my machines are one running Win2KProSP4 with no updates applied, and another running WinXPProSP1, again never updated.

Of course this could prevent you running IE7 or the latest WMP, but who wants those when Firefox and DivX Player are available?

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