[9233] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Critical Updater Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carson Gaspar)
Tue Jan 26 16:08:58 1999
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:50:56 -0500
Reply-To: carson@tla.org
From: Carson Gaspar <carson@TLA.ORG>
X-To: "Gale S. Ringley" <gringley@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19990125023446.13742.qmail@hotmail.com>
>>>>> "Gale" == Gale S Ringley <gringley@HOTMAIL.COM> writes:
Gale> The behaviour you describe occured because at some point, you or someone
Gale> else who uses your computer told Windows to trust all content from
Gale> Microsoft. The wait and restart was indeed an update to Windows Update.
Gale> To prevent this in the future, you will have to open in IE4
View> Internet Options>Content>Certificate>Publishers and remove the
Gale> publishers you no longer want to trust.
Not true. I can confirm this. It transferred _something_ and then
asked if I wanted to restart. After that, I got the usual "do you want
to trust this ActiveX control" message before it scanned my system for
new updates.
Something else is going on.
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