Blocking Windows Service Pack 2

[Philip Shulman]

With the free tool from Microsoft expiring on April 12th, does any know of a
way to block the download and installation of Service Pack 2 while
continuing to have Automatic updates enable?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Kevin]

Yeah. Tell Windows Updates to notify you when the updates are available,
but to download and install only when, and what, you tell it to. I've had
SP2 sitting in the download queue for months. Not gonna download or install
it at all.

 

[Jeremy Drake]

The only way I know of that might work is to go to windowsupdate.com, select
custom, and try hiding the updates you don't want downloaded. It could save
the changes to the auto update profile on your harddrive so it wouldn't
download SP2.

 

[V Green]

Yeah. Tell Windows Updates to notify you when the updates are available,
but to download and install only when, and what, you tell it to. I've had
SP2 sitting in the download queue for months. Not gonna download or install
it at all.

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If you have the Automatic Updates service DISABLED
(as shown in Administrative Tools>>Services) will this
virus (a.k.a. SP2) still find a way to infect my system
on the 13th?

Or am I safe?

 

[Rock]

With the free tool from Microsoft expiring on April 12th, does any know of a
way to block the download and installation of Service Pack 2 while
continuing to have Automatic updates enable?

Thanks in advance.

Turn off automatic updates. Besides you have to click yes to accept the
Eula before it will install.

 

[Kevin]

Everything else snipped for brevity -----------

I'm not sure what you are talking about. If Automatic Updates is disabled,
you won't receive the Automatic Updates . . . basically. What is
significant about the 13th? What is meant by the term "virus" with
reference to SP 2?

 

[V Green]

Everything else snipped for brevity -----------

I'm not sure what you are talking about.

You took what I said a bit too literally ;-)

If Automatic Updates is disabled,
you won't receive the Automatic Updates . . . basically.

OK, understood. I found other info that confirms
this. My concern was that *IF* MS REALLY wants
to propogate SP2, that having A.U. disabled would
NOT be enough, and the miserable thing would show
up unannounced and unwanted *anyway*. I have a perfectly
running SP1A system, fully protected upstream with firewall
& proxy and do not need or want any of SP2's supposed
"fixes". I gotta business to run here, and do NOT have the
time to spend turning off all the security crap that is enabled
by default and/or fixing other introduced instabilities.

What is
significant about the 13th?

It's the day after the 12th, when push comes
to shove, as it were.


What is meant by the term "virus" with

reference to SP 2?

My attempt at humor:
It breaks things in some cases, just like a virus.
It comes to you disguised as something useful, just like a virus.
You don't *need* it, just like a virus.

AOL and Real Player are virii as well, by the same definition.