full-disclosure - Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7

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Message-id: <f5a6f1d53cae.45446306@gci.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:15:02 -0900
From: Charles Hamby <fixer@....net>
To: Aaron Gray <angray@...b.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7

It seems to me that all you need to do is set Automatic Updates to tell you when new patches are ready and then tell it
to ignore IE7 if you don't want it.

I'm more puzzled as to why they're doing this "out of cycle" instead of on "Patch Tuesday" (or "Black Tuesday", your choice).

-cdh

----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Gray <angray@...b.net>
Date: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:04 am
Subject: [Full-disclosure] MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk

> Hi,
> 
> Just got this news :-
> 
>        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102800029.html
> Is this a bad thing or a bad bad thing ?
> 
> Can it be circumvented ? Do I have to turn off Auto Update and do 
> Custom updates via IE ?
> 
> Open for comments,
> 
> Aaron
> 

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