Windows Auto Update Continues To Aggravate

Windows Automatic Updates in riot broke out again last month, this week is not so much a problem with the program itself, but might be a patch management and change control issues, observers said.

"It is a clue, if you re administrator can control configuration UNITA, as well as non-users access, "Gill said, Kirkpatrick, Chief Technical Officer of Phoenix, Arizona .- based on netpro, a Windows security and infrastructure Facilities consultants "It seems that if this is in a specific user, it should have known or had prior audit prior " controversy, its roots in complaints from the recent discussion thread aeroxperience.com - a W indows lovers portal - it was revealed that some users have configured the W i ndowsUp date to download, rather than install the update. These users find that their machine has been launched overnight, the installation of automatic updates to lose some of the key application data. In addition, users reported that the Windows Update configured more or less back to the "automatically installed " settings.

Microsoft this week denied any misconduct, in a note to a detailed examination blog, log found no release a patch in the mid- # 39 patch released Tuesday "any changes to user Port-au-Prince settings. " Said. Conclusion t of the last month, since Microsoft concessions that it had quietly Update, Windows Update apparatus, in all versions of the operating system, not to remind customers.

As for this week incident, Microsoft recommends components other than the Windows Update can be responsible for the changes, it is puzzling, because Microsoft just about corneal market, the update for the Windows environment. In August this year, Microsoft contact the Attorney Generals Chambers and even going so far as independent vendors such as autopatcher.com and ordered it to stop the development of mechanisms to help in updating procedures and Windows applications.

"In this week , and this may very well be a foreign applications cause of this but to say that Microsoft is not at fault, it will be simplistic "said gerret grajeck founder and chief operating officer of Irvine, Calif.-based IT security firm multi-factor authentication, the company " non-UNITA a great impact on how the programs can be smooth functioning of the operating system, I merger terms not just for my customers, but on how I might be products of this harmful updates. " Overall, the servers running Windows, in a complex processing environment may find the use of the more expedient, but because the pro-net Kirkpatrick pointed out that, regardless of the Microsoft found that, in subsequent investigations about Au, and its pros and cons, on the ground need to be thorough.

Grajek agreed and pointed out that enterprises would normally take special measures to update the appraisal, in the gestation period for new procedures and the application on the server level. He believes that, perhaps depth and the time to apply the same approach with the operating system, hardware and workstations.

"When you look at companies doing regression testing, the server level, you kind of think that companies may need to look at how to do the same thing on the client, "grajek said. "This will put that extra assurance in place, and to prevent similar things from happening. "