re: Question about 'Enabling or Disabling Automatic Windows Update'
Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Red Shadow
(134 messages posted)
Spybot and similar programs do NOT search for violations of our internal directions
to Windows. They search for known, predefined spyware. They use references that should
be updated on a regular basis.
Microsoft, on the otherhand, wants WindowsXP to update itself. In their opinion,
it is in your best interest for this to happen. You need to check for virus, spyware
and adware again, but you also need verify that you have properly instructed MS not
to update Windows.
Control Panel > Automatic Uptdates > Disable
On Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 3:00 pm, Stuart wrote:
>I have a question about Enabling
>or Disabling Automatic Windows Update:
>When I disabled Windows Update and got rid of the icon, Windows is still trying
>to access the windows update site. I blocked heaps of these addresses and it keeps
>trying different ones. Finally I went to the services page and disables the service
>which was still running. Guess I'll see how it goes now. My question is why doesn't
>my spyware software pick this up. surely if I have specifically disabled this what
>right has it got to continue attempting access, using my system resourses etc doesn't
>this qualify as spyware. Why does windows want it to continue accessing the net
>after I have disabled it? and why when I search google don't I find any references
>to this?
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