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Subject: latest critical fix and automatic updates
From: "Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:56:53 -0400
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Thru various web sources (zdnet, etc) MS issued "critical" fixes
Tuesday. Since Tue my desktop did it's automatic updates & prompted me
to reboot. I did. Later (same day)I went to Windows Update site to check my pc, 
and there was the whole list 8 security fixes, including the critical update. 
If Automatic Updates is configured to "download and prompt for reboot", 
why would it not get what's out there? 
Is Automatic Update not reliable?
I checked with another programmer (diff site) - had same problem. 
I run Zone Alarm, he does not...
jim franz

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