'Stealth' Windows updates may do harm, says newsletter

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'Stealth' Windows updates may do harm, says newsletter
Fixes made by Microsoft to installed copies of Windows without the user's
knowledge or permission -- detailed here earlier this month -- at first
seemed alarming but harmless. A story set to appear Thursday in Windows
Secrets newsletter says that's not so.

"We have tested and confirmed that the silent updates actually prevent a
repaired copy of Windows XP from loading the latest patches," Scott Dunn,
associate editor of the weekly e-mailed publication, writes in the article.

Nate Clinton, Microsoft's program manager for the Windows Update program,
couldn't be reached for comment late Wednesday afternoon.

Posted by Dan Richman at September 27, 2007 12:15 a.m.
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