Date sent: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:20:10 +0300 (EEST) From: Juha-Matti Laurio <[email protected]>
> "Windows XP and Vista have started installing updates at shutdown, in certain > cases, without displaying a warning or requesting permission, according to > reports by several readers. As evidence for the prosecution, I have deliberately stayed away from the Silverlight "update." Today I was checking my plugins in Firefox (due to the Shockwave vulnerability) and found Silverlight. Over the past few months we have noticed some times where the "shutdown" has taken times running over half an hour, without any notice or options saying that updates were being installed. (On the other hand, I recently had to spend 9 hours updating a friend's machine, since he had somehow set the update time to 3 am, and hadn't installed anything since January.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them - Alfred North Whitehead http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
