Posted on 09/04/2015 7:43:38 PM PDT by dayglored
People all over the world are waking up this morning to a little present in their Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) Windows Update boxes: KB 3083324, which describes itself as “Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: September 2015.” Here’s what the KB article says:
This article describes an update that contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.That’s it. If there’s any further description, I can’t find it. In particular, as of this writing anyway, it isn’t even listed in the official Windows Update catalog.
There’s some conjecture that the patch may fix the intolerably long wait some people are experiencing when checking for updates in Win7.
Fortunately, the patch is optional -- it appears in the Windows Update list as an unchecked item in the Optional list.
Are you feeling lucky? Want to beta test a Windows Update update? Enjoy the feeling of exhilaration when Microsoft releases yet another stealthy patch? Oh boy.
My advice: Don’t check that box. Wait and see if we get any documentation about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at infoworld.com ...
I reinstalled Windows 7 Pro last week on one of my laptops and had a heck of a time getting updates to even work. I reinstalled it multiple times and ran the Windows 7 Update Repair Kit multiple times before I finally got it working.
How about the (create you're description) that gave Hillary the post-it note... Your server was updated
windows is trying to screw you any way they can. they will most likely have updates that do things you have no idea are going on. that is the direction they are moving.
FYI
If it ain't broke, etc.
This might have been covered on twit.TV..,the Windows Weeklky show recently. IIRC they didn’t have much info but decided it was safe. They’ll probably have more next week.
FWIW at the end of July-early August I got an update on an old XP machine. I didn’t install it until the other day. After a blog of research I found that while MS stopped supporting XP there was a release that some com!panies could still use. It’s for Adoble, Norton and a few other companies.
I got one of those and deleted it in about a second.
Thanks for this warning, it’s on my optional suggested list.
(I’m on Windows 7). By the way, my DNI list of MS Updates now is :
KB3068708
KB3075249
KB3080149
KB3035583
KB3083324
Am I missing any?
When will Microsoft figure out that they are getting a huge amount of bad press for the Windows 10 forcefeeding?
Am I missing any?
I have W8.1 and I'm not installing ANY updates unless I hear a compelling reason to do so. Frankly, I trust hackers more than Microsoft.
See this:
Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches (Win 10 spyware comes to 7, 8.1)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3331984/posts
I have Win 7 on my note book. I keep getting prompted to upgrade to Win 10, Soon they will just up date it with out my permission. Then a lot of my add on programs won’t work.
TALK about spreading FUD.
The reactions in this thread are comical. You all are accusing Microsoft of something devious yet complaining that Windows 7 takes a long time to update. They’re coming out and saying, “This is a patch to update Windows Update,” but everyone’s on the “We don’t take kindly to your updatin’ o’ that there Winders Update.” You’re a fickle bunch, I’ll tell you what.
In corporate America, when it comes to Windows patching, most of us go the T+1 month strategy with updates. I encourage everyone to do the same. That means turning off the automatic updating of your OS and electing to be notified when they’re ready to be installed. Then, wait a month, make sure everything’s shaken out of the patch process, and proceed. Obviously this means that you have to *gasp* do some work, but what’s the old saying? “Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither?”
If you don’t like Microsoft or their update methodologies, then go drop a mortgage payment on an Apple device or muddle through a Linux install.
I’ve turned off all updates on my desktop and my laptop running WIN 7.
I have another laptop running WIN 7, it was provided by my company and I don’t mess with the settings - it has some built in security, like Fortinet and Fortissl.
This machine I’m posting from has old, reliable WINXP.
I’m not counting my four or five other older machines running XP.
Right? I purchased a brand spankin new laptop several months ago and it ran great. Lightening fast...very pleased.
Then I thought I’d check on updates and so forth....wrong!
Big mistake. Win7 updates galore...bogged my system down to a crawl. Couldn’t even surf the web or stream videos...sucked. I tried everything to repair.
Finally had to do a factory default restore...bada bing, bada boom. She’z back to running like the day I bought it.
NO MO Win7 updates...If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.
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