Re: Win Update Alert - OK - Disappears til later

"Alias" wrote:

Harry Johnston [MVP] wrote:
Alias wrote:

I installed the WGA thing. I have nothing to fear.

You were lucky. The Internet is chock full of posts where WGA (both
flavors) falsely accused them of piracy.

Sure, but that comprises only a very tiny fraction of all the computers
where WGA was installed. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn't have a
significantly higher failure rate than the average update.

Harry.

If it happens on ONE computer, that ONE person is very, very
inconvenienced so why install it? It does NOTHING to improve *anything*.

It can also be what the user has on his system. Did he tweak something he
shouldn't of? Malware? Malware removed but remnants still there? I think with
the exception of a very, very small group, the false positives are rare.

You mentioned spyware. This obviously isn't spyware then. More like a
nuisance to very few.

How do you get your updates then? Automatic Update checks as well. Just a
different way.




Alias



Alias

"Alias" wrote:

Gis Bun wrote:
And you can choose not to install it [and hide it] with a "custom"
check.
Not that one, the Activex one. You are referring to WGA/N.

Alias
"Alias" wrote:

Gis Bun wrote:
You can always go to the Windows Update site and download the
updates. No sense in putting off the security updates.
There's one good reason not to go to the Windows Update and that
is that there is spyware waiting for you there in the form of WGA.

Alias
"Craig S" wrote:

Thank you. It's easier to live with something if you know
there's no fix for various quirks.

"Alias" wrote:

Craig S wrote:
XP SP3 --- More than not Windows' Auto-Update Alert symbol
appears in my System Tray, I clk OK to DnLoad, and then the
Alert disappears til a later time - often when I've pursued
Updates manually - which then conflicts with the original
Update effort that seems to reappear.

Is this common and / or is their a fix for this? Thanks!
It's common and no fix has been made available that I know of.
Having patience is the only thing that works. I'm waiting on
the yellow shield to reappear as I type this ;-)

Alias


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    ... inconvenienced so why install it? ... This obviously isn't spyware then. ... There's one good reason not to go to the Windows Update and that is that there is spyware waiting for you there in the form of WGA. ... Is this common and / or is their a fix for this? ...
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    ... but that comprises only a very tiny fraction of all the computers where WGA was installed. ... This obviously isn't spyware then. ... Is this common and / or is their a fix for this? ... It's common and no fix has been made available that I know of. ...
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