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Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again)
Posted by Mary Jo Foley
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed
something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update
settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
The new report comes on the heels of recent complaints regarding Windows
Update performing stealth updates on users' machines who had turned off
Automatic Updates. (Microsoft officials subsequently explained that glitch
by saying that Windows Update requires self-updating before it is able to
recognize that new updates are available. Microsoft promised to be clearer,
in the future, in communicating this requirement.)
The AeroXperience Web site reported a new Windows Update problem on October
10, and was told by Microsoft that the company was aware of the issue and
were digging into what happened and why.
It's hard to say how many users have been affected by this week's Windows
Update problem. The patch-setting override seems to not have affected users
running the beta of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, though that is not 100
percent verified, AeroXP members said. It's also not clear whether any
Windows XP users were affected and/or whether Vista users who obtain their
patches via Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) were hit with the same
problem.
AeroXP member Rafael Rivera explained the malfunction this way:
"Woke up this morning to a Windows log in screen? Swear you set that option
'Download updates but let me choose whether to install them'? We did too.
"In what appears to be a major glitch at Microsoft, Windows users are
trickling in from across the globe reporting that their machines downloaded
and installed updates they did not consent to. Rubbing salt in the wound,
machines were also automatically and forcefully rebooted at the default 3am
time frame."
AeroXP quotes a Microsoft spokesperson who said the company currently is
investigating the issue "regarding machines that are re-starting and having
automatic updating settings set back to 'Install Updates Automatically,'
despite having selected to be notified before installation of updates."
Users who've encountered the problem should contact Microsoft Support at
http://support.microsoft.com/security, Microsoft suggested.
Any users out there who encountered this problem this week?
Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again)
Posted by Mary Jo Foley
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed
something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update
settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
The new report comes on the heels of recent complaints regarding Windows
Update performing stealth updates on users' machines who had turned off
Automatic Updates. (Microsoft officials subsequently explained that glitch
by saying that Windows Update requires self-updating before it is able to
recognize that new updates are available. Microsoft promised to be clearer,
in the future, in communicating this requirement.)
The AeroXperience Web site reported a new Windows Update problem on October
10, and was told by Microsoft that the company was aware of the issue and
were digging into what happened and why.
It's hard to say how many users have been affected by this week's Windows
Update problem. The patch-setting override seems to not have affected users
running the beta of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, though that is not 100
percent verified, AeroXP members said. It's also not clear whether any
Windows XP users were affected and/or whether Vista users who obtain their
patches via Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) were hit with the same
problem.
AeroXP member Rafael Rivera explained the malfunction this way:
"Woke up this morning to a Windows log in screen? Swear you set that option
'Download updates but let me choose whether to install them'? We did too.
"In what appears to be a major glitch at Microsoft, Windows users are
trickling in from across the globe reporting that their machines downloaded
and installed updates they did not consent to. Rubbing salt in the wound,
machines were also automatically and forcefully rebooted at the default 3am
time frame."
AeroXP quotes a Microsoft spokesperson who said the company currently is
investigating the issue "regarding machines that are re-starting and having
automatic updating settings set back to 'Install Updates Automatically,'
despite having selected to be notified before installation of updates."
Users who've encountered the problem should contact Microsoft Support at
http://support.microsoft.com/security, Microsoft suggested.
Any users out there who encountered this problem this week?