Text 11421, 54 rader
Skriven 2006-06-08 23:38:54 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 11412 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Yet another Vista feature bites the dust
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From: "Gary Britt" <glb@gencog.com>

I declined the install of this version of the WGA and told autoupdates not to
offer it again.  As far as I know, I don't have it on my laptop.  I visited
windows update recently and suddenly I don't have the right version of the
update software and Microsoft installer (I did before), and now I don't get any
updates offered unless I first update my update software.  It doesn't tell me
what it wants to install, and I'm concerned that if I let it install I'll end
up with the WGA Trojan.  On the other hand, if I don't let it install I can't
get security updates anymore?

I'm tempted to just screw the security updates.  I don't go to any websites
that are likely to have a Trojan or infection waiting for me, and AVAST is up
to date.  I had to uninstall all the updates from mid April forward because at
least one of them screwed up certain display elements in MS Office 2000 ( I
suspect because my Intel 855 chipset integrated video includes among its
drivers a specialized older version of an nvidia driver to handle multiple
monitor stuff).  Updating the driver isn't an available option.

I'm beginning to think, hey my computer works well and I like how everything is
running, maybe NOT installing any future updates is the best choice given the
kind of stuff Microsoft is now slipping into the update process?

Any thoughts by anyone on this idea?

Gary

"Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4488c388$1@w3.nls.net...
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> "/m" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
> news:d5dh82drvivcs61i1l3e3q2stvv3jr3msb@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:16:24 -0400, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Microsoft officials said they cut the feature due to quality concerns
>>
>>
>> Yet they are willing to download WGA software that they admit may be
>> problematic onto hundreds of millions of users' PCs, without letting
>> those users know of the possible problematic nature of WGA.
>>
>>  /m
>
> Not only that Microsoft snuck the wga trojan onto many PCs around April
> 25th. Two of my PCs rebooted after receiving the unscheduled update then
> and magically the trojan was installed.  Microsoft's current spin on the
> 'Genuine' forum  is if you don't wish the trojan just set your pc for
> autoupdates and you will just receive security updates. That's how I got
> the FREAKIN trojan.
>

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