where is this article? i think it was posted before i joined earlier in the week.
Steve Szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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On Friday 10 September 2004 08:09 pm, chris lee wrote:
> if you read the articles youll notice that it says they can.
>
> "Beginning on Tuesday 12 April 2005 AU (Automatic Update) and WU
> (Windows Update) will deliver SP2 regardless of the presence of the
> blocking mechanism."
>
> so no matter if you have automatic updates turned off you will still
> get SP2 on 12 april.
>
> all they have to do is log on via NT/Authority system remotely and install
> it.
>
> which just because im paranoid makes me think what else can they install.
>
If you read the EULA it says that you agree on letting them look into your
system and install s/w on your computer. (Using clevely chosen words.)
As far as turning it on... yup, they can do this remotely and you cannot turn
it off. Or rather you can turn off some things but you cannot stop them from
over riding it. It "calls home" to check what it needs to do.
All that 's neccessary, is for them to identify themselves as microsoft, and
they have access. What makes that an even bigger problem, is that it's not
hard to fake it out pretending to being microsoft.
This went into effect from w2k sp3 onwards.
What I do is block every known IP range which I've discovered that they use,
at the firewall (which is a seperate machine). This way it cannot "call
home". Then if that particular office needs to access let's say the knowledge
base, I let a Linux machine, configured to look like Netscape or IE, bypass
the block.
- --
Steve
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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