{"id":37,"date":"2007-10-15T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alsplace.aldenbaker.com\/alsplace\/microsoft\/37\/the-mystery-continues-why-are-windows-machines-automatically-updating-themselves\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T14:45:21","slug":"the-mystery-continues-why-are-windows-machines-automatically-updating-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"The mystery continues: Why are Windows machines automatically updating themselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- ALL ADSENSE ADS DISABLED -->\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\">Posted by Mary Jo Foley<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\">October 15th, 2007<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">A (slight) update on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=830\"><span style=\"color: blue\">last<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=830\"><span style=\"color: blue\"> <\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=830\"><span style=\"color: blue\">week&rsquo;s report that some Windows users are seeing their Vista PCs automatically<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=830\"><span style=\"color: blue\"> <\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=830\"><span style=\"color: blue\">update themselves<\/span><\/a> and reboot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">From Nate Clinton, a Microsoft Update Program Manager, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mu\/archive\/2007\/10\/12\/response-to-recent-web-posts.aspx\"><span style=\"color: blue\">Microsoft<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mu\/archive\/2007\/10\/12\/response-to-recent-web-posts.aspx\"><span style=\"color: blue\"> <\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mu\/archive\/2007\/10\/12\/response-to-recent-web-posts.aspx\"><span style=\"color: blue\">Update Product Team blog<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&ldquo;We have been hearing some questions recently regarding Tuesday&rsquo;s update release changing automatic updating settings. We have received some logs from customers, and have so far been able to determine that their AU settings were not changed by any changes to the AU client itself and also not changed by any updates installed by AU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&ldquo;We are still looking into this to see if another application is making this change during setup with user consent, or if this issue is related to something else. We are continuing the investigation, and as I have more information I will update this post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&ldquo;If you are running into this issue, your help would be greatly appreciated. You can contact support, and they can walk you through the steps necessary to provide logs and other useful data.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">So, it doesn&rsquo;t seem to be Automatic Update (AU) or the patches themselves at fault. So what caused last Past Tuesday&rsquo;s patches to be installed automatically and machines to be rebooted for a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalrock.com\/\">cheapest generic cialis<\/a>  users who had chosen not to allow automatic installation of patches &mdash; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeroxp.org\/index.php?categoryid=23&amp;p2_articleid=133\"><span style=\"color: blue\">originally<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeroxp.org\/index.php?categoryid=23&amp;p2_articleid=133\"><span style=\"color: blue\"> <\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeroxp.org\/index.php?categoryid=23&amp;p2_articleid=133\"><span style=\"color: blue\">reported on the AeroXperience site<\/span><\/a>? It&rsquo;s still not clear whether it is Vista only (or also XP) that is affected and whether Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) users have seen the same problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"justify\">More to come when there&rsquo;s new info to share.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; color: #666666; font-family: Tahoma\">Pasted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=832&amp;tag=nl.e539\">http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=832&amp;tag=nl.e539<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Social Bookmarks BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"social_bookmark\">\n<a title=\"Click me to see the sites.\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"$$('div.d37').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_down',{duration:2.5}) }); return false;\"><strong><em>Bookmark to:<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"d37\" style=\"overflow:hidden\">\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-size:90%;text-align: right; \" title=\"Click me to hide the sites.\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"$$('div.d37').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); return false;\">Hide Sites<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- Social Bookmarks END -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">$$('div.d37').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Mary Jo Foley October 15th, 2007 &nbsp; A (slight) update on last week&rsquo;s report that some Windows users are seeing their Vista PCs automatically update themselves and reboot. &nbsp; From Nate Clinton, a Microsoft Update Program Manager, via the Microsoft Update Product Team blog: &nbsp; &ldquo;We have been hearing some questions recently regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<!-- Social Bookmarks BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"social_bookmark\">\n<a title=\"Click me to see the sites.\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"$$('div.d37').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_down',{duration:2.5}) }); return false;\"><strong><em>Bookmark to:<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"d37\" style=\"overflow:hidden\">\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-size:90%;text-align: right; \" title=\"Click me to hide the sites.\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"$$('div.d37').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); return false;\">Hide Sites<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- Social Bookmarks END -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">$$('div.d37').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); <\/script>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsplace.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}