From: Gregg N 

Mike '/m' wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:26:18 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>> "Gregg N"  wrote in
message news:44542e9a$1{at}w3....
>>
>>> I must have missed something in this thread. What did WU do that made
>>> you mistrust it? Using it to update Windows Defender seems like a
>>> reasonable idea. Why not?
>> http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/04/microsoft_expands_antipir
acy_p.html
>
> From the article...
>
> ===
> For my part, I turned off Automatic Updates several months ago, mainly
> because I got sick of telling Windows not to install its "malicious
> software removal tool," (even though I checked the box next to "don't
> ask again" or something to that effect, Windows asks permission to
> reinstall the program every time other updates are available).
> ===
>
> And I thought it was just me that Microsoft was trying to force that
> malicious software removal tool upon.  I'm glad to see that Microsoft is
> pissing off others as well, by not listening to what the user wants to
> do with his/her own PC.
>
>  /m

I think the "don't tell me about this" means this *particular*
update (e.g., security update xxxx, or May's malicious removal tool), not
this type of download. IOW, you can tell it to stop telling you about a
particular patch or a particular malicious removal tool, but not all
patches or all malicious removal tools.

Gregg

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