Confirmation Of Stealth Windows Update

From Adrian Kingsley-Huges blog over on ZDNet:

I can now confirm that the stealth Windows Update that I blogged about yesterday actually exists – because I’ve detected its presence on a machine at the PC Doc HQ.

At the PC Doc HQ we have several systems set not to update. This is so that they are kept at a specific patch level for testing duties. Many of these systems are virtual machines but some are physical. When I heard about this stealth update I decided to take a look at one of these systems that don’t update automatically – and within seconds I found what I was looking for.

Wow, this is truly sucktastic. I have seen apps go completely sideways after some Microsoft patches were applied. Now, factor in this “stealth” update function. Now ponder those systems in your production environment.

Not cool.

For the full posting read on.

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[tags]Windows Updates, Windows Stealth Updates, Stealth Updates[/tags]

Posted by Dave Lewis on September 13, 2007. Filed under OS Security,Patches. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry