From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:412397fa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > My old Thinkpad is set up to prompt before downloading auto-updates,
> > and prompt again before installing them.  I saw no prompts.  I got the
> > new Security dialog after installing the cumulative IE6 patch.
>
> As I said, it's a stealth patch, I doubt very seriously if it asked -- it
> didn't even notify me.  I know it's not part of the IE6 update.

A stealth path, hmmm.... can we all spell "exploit waiting to
happen"? I think that's a bad, bad idea.


Antti Kurenniemi
(Not to mention the impact on the trustworthiness of MS - what on earth
could be an acceptable reason for not letting the user know about an
update? I sure can't think of any...)

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