First Step Towards Windows 10 in Security Updates?

[owsf2000]

So, for Win7 and 8.1 users, Patch Tuesday brought some security updates for Internet Explorer. That patch apparently has a "trojan" update KB3146449, which is an advertisement generator for Windows 10 for when you open up a new tab.

Best be careful when applying the security updates going forward I guess.

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Might want to keep an eye on Critical Updates (http://news.slashdot.org/story/16/03/12/1634229/windows-10-upgrade-reportedly-starting-automatically-on-windows-7-pcs#comments) as well if you're still giving them a full pass.

According to some of the comments under here it looks like the reason for this latest upgrading is a patch being upgraded to critical. If that's true, you'd have to wonder if that was "accidental" or not.

"Your guess was correct. Windows 7 Pro not on a domain. Looks like the update was changed to critical and that's why it was automatic."

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

There shouldn't be anything at all starting automatically on my comp, since I have it set to "check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them." I would recommend that everyone use these settings on their Windows Update, if they aren't already, due to all these scumshit tactics Microsoft are using.

(The only bad thing, though, is that it doesn't seem to actually be doing the "check for updates" part of that anymore, either. I haven't gotten a single fucking notification that there have been any new updates available for several months now. Any and all Windows Update runs I've done lately have been purely manual. Not that that's a bad thing at all, mind you, and is, in fact, a good thing, what with everything that's been happening lately. I only wish it was still telling me if there's something there to be gotten in the first place, though. Whether I actually install said things to be gotten is a whole other animal, of course, but I'd still like to know before wasting several minutes manually "checking for updates.")