'Stealth' Windows updates may do harm, says newsletter

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'Stealth' Windows updates may do harm, says newsletter

« Posted: September 27, 2007, 07:07:13 PM »

'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 arepaired 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.
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