Re: Windows update installing updates over riding my settings
- From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:04:20 -0400
Jody wrote:
I am using Windows Update and the setting is still on Notify of updates"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:I had the update setting on automatic to be done at 8pm and my time was
being overridden and I was also receiving updates that had no bearing on
my system (updates for XPSP2! not Vista) So I changed it to download but
don't install until I checked them. I was finding updates that were
being
installed anyway and sometimes twice back to back. ie - that fateful
Tues
in March with KB 938371 that took away all my USB drives. Now I have
changed it to just notify me of updates and I will decide which ones to
install and the stupid updates are being updated and installed anyway.
Is anyone else having this problem? I am sick of Microsoft deciding
which
updates I need. I know a lot of them were in preparation for SP1 but I
never
did get that as an update. Downloaded and installed myself with the
help
from Microsoft and I had no problem. Sorry - BTP I don't know any thing
else to do but cut them off completely which is certainly enticing at
this
point. Would appreciate any help.
Your post is not clear: Are you currently running Vista or Vista SP1?Sorry, looking at this post I certainly left out info, but thank you for
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party
firewall
(if any)?
One or more options/settings in an ever-growing number of third-party
applications may be disallowing the change(s) from "sticking". These
include
but are not limited to Ad-aware's Ad-Watch, Spybot Tea Timer,
SpywareBlaster, SpySweeper, Spyware Doctor, CounterSpy, AVG Anti-Spyware,
Norton AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware, NOD32, and Zone
Alarm (Free, Pro, & Security Suite).
pointing them out to me. I honestly had not thought of them.
Vista Home SP1, Avast anti-virus, spysweeper, spyware blaster, windows
firewall, spybot without TeaTimer and that is it.
And is Automatic Updates still set to "Notify Only" or has it reverted back
to the earlier setting?
In any event, if you found or find that the setting had reverted back to an
earlier setting, chances are that Spysweeper's real-time protection was the
responsible party. However...
If you'd been using Windows Update as your default update source and then
switched it to Microsoft Update (offers updates for Windows, Office, and
Windows Live), making that switch will reset Automatic Updates back to the
"Automatic" setting.
but let me choose whether to download and install. But yesterday an
update was automatically installed and the setting was to download and
install only if I choose. I had checked it earlier that day. So I assume
it is SpySweeper, so how do I fix it? I don't want it on Automatic,which
it isn't anyway. What a mess. Now what?
Can you identify the update that was automatically installed yesterday, Jody?
Might it have been the Windows Update "infrastructure" update I referenced in a post in this same newsgroup on 03 July? => http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/msg/4d5d771650d15661?hl=en
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