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Microsoft to push IE8 as an automatic update

Tom Warren — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:29:12 +0000

Microsoft has announced it plans to offer IE8 via Windows Update. In a move that will likely anger rivals such as Apple and Google, Microsoft will be pushing Internet Explorer 8 via Windows Update. Google... Read more...

IE Automatic Component Activation Now Available

Steven Parker — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:27:54 +0100

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Jefferson Fletcher: The IE Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) update is now available as part of the April 2008 Internet Explorer Cumulative Update. The "click to activate" behavior, formerly required for ActiveX controls embedded in... Read more...

Apple to Launch iPod with Automatic Volume Control

RangerLG — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:52:26 +0000

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Listening to music non-stop has never been easier since the iPod came along. But future versions of Apple's MP3 player are to be adapted to prevent users from playing tracks at full blast through... Read more...

Microsoft brings back automatic ActiveX

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:06:48 +0000

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Microsoft is to remove a feature from Internet Explorer that required users to activate certain interactive features on a website. Prior to April 2007, the features functioned without any user interaction. The changes were made... Read more...

Windows Live OneCare changes Automatic Updates

Slimy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:07:56 +0100

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Amid reports that Windows Live OneCare changes settings in Windows Update to allow for automatic installation of important updates, the official word from Microsoft is that this is by design. When first installing OneCare, the... Read more...

Immunity Unleashes Automatic Exploit Tool

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:20:25 +0100

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Immunity, a company already well-known for making pen testing easy, has released a new tool to make writing exploits near-automatic. Immunity released the tool, called Debugger, here at the Defcon hackers convention on Aug. 3.... Read more...

Microsoft's fix for Automatic Updates lockup not working

Slimy — Sun, 13 May 2007 00:48:02 +0100

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Even after users deployed a fix suggested by Microsoft Corporation, Windows systems are still locking up. Symptoms of the long-running problem, which the Windows Server Update Services team dubbed the "svchost/msi issue", include 100% CPU... Read more...

Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7

Croquant — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:50:24 +0100

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To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after the final version of... Read more...

Internet Explorer 7 and Automatic Updates

lardiop — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:51:51 +0100

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Microsoft plans to use its Automatic Updates patch-distribution service to push its stand-alone Internet Explorer 7.0 browser to customers once the product is ready to ship in the fourth quarter of this year. But just... Read more...

Windows 2000 Automatic Updating Released

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:38:36 +0100

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Thanks ahodes1 from our BPN Forum This Windows feature notifies you when critical updates are available for your computer. This feature replaces Critical Update Notification if it is already installed.... Read more...