Topic: MS Windows related update downloads

[E_Look]

I very recently received an icon popping up on my taskbar on WinXP telling me to go and update MS Defender, Microsoft's antispyware program.  It actually isn't bad as far as that stuff goes.

I got it also on a work computer, so over there, I did do the download, and while I nixed the download of the Genuine Advantage software, I still had to go through an alternate validation process, ostensibly run from MS' website.

However, a temp directory DID STILL receive a d/l of some stuff that executed itself on my computer.

Does anyone know anything about how MS' validation methods work?  Do they leave garbage on your HD?

I am holding downloading this updated Defender engine until I can figure out what really goes on during this update/validation process.

[FCM_SFHQ_XC]

Well first off if you want to get rid of the Win Update Icon while you see if it did install or not, go into Windows update and hide it till you know for sure. The garbage they leave on their is a log file of it in WINDOWS and a $Uninstall$ folder in WINDOWS also.

[E_Look]

Well first off if you want to get rid of the Win Update Icon while you see if it did install or not, go into Windows update and hide it till you know for sure. The garbage they leave on their is a log file of it in WINDOWS and a $Uninstall$ folder in WINDOWS also.

How do you get rid of the icon?  I don't see where there is an option to hide it.

[FCM_SFHQ_XC]

In Windows update, so in IE go to Windows update, let it scan your computer, then in High Priority Updates, deselect it for download then check the Hich box below the description
or
you can disable Win Update completly by going to
Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Services
then find Automatic Updates there and disable it(and stop the service also)
to also get rid of that dumb "Security Center Warning" after that then find the service "Security Center" and stop and disable that(or set it to Manual Startup if you ever want to use it)

[E_Look]

Oh, I see.

No, I don't want to do that, as that'll disable also the autoupdating for the OS, etc.

When I went to their site, it says that I canceled the Genuine Advantage thing.

I hope there's so much resentment to this that MS regrets it and stops using it.