From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Gregg N"  wrote in message
news:44542d6d{at}w3....
> Geo wrote:
>> "Gregg N"  wrote in message
>> news:44531c2d$1{at}w3....
>>
>>> The autoupdate choices are
>>
>> Whatever the default is is what he had his computer set to. He now has
>> updates disabled, turned the service to manual and swore if he could he
>> would move off Windows.
>
> If he is going to have long-running programs that must not be interrupted,
> then he should set it to prompt. But turning it off altogether and
> disabling the service is overreacting, IMO.
>
> Gregg


There have been reports for quite a few months  both  on the
microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup and websites of computers that
were just set to download and notify that have rebooted

http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/vuln_aacfhddccc_de/

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