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Be careful of Windows update
For some reason Windows update is offering people to install an ATI
driver and claiming it is an important update instead of optional. I already have latest driver so there is no way I need this driver. If you have auto-update on, which I don't, it will install automatically which has happened to a few people already. The drivers at Windows update do not have OpenGL driver so if you have any games that use OpenGL and this update installs you will have to mess around with installing ATI download driver again. |
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* Anton Kolakov:
For some reason Windows update is offering people to install an ATI driver and claiming it is an important update instead of optional. I already have latest driver so there is no way I need this driver. If you have auto-update on, which I don't, it will install automatically which has happened to a few people already. The drivers at Windows update do not have OpenGL driver so if you have any games that use OpenGL and this update installs you will have to mess around with installing ATI download driver again. I noticed the same problem, Windows update installed an older driver (identified as Catalyst 9.7 by CCC) when I had 9.9 already installed, so I had to reinstall 9.9 afterwards. It doesn't seem to be limited to ATI drivers. On my laptop with Nvidia gfx I was offered an older driver as "critical update" today. Ben |
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"Benjamin Gawert" wrote in message ... * Anton Kolakov: For some reason Windows update is offering people to install an ATI driver and claiming it is an important update instead of optional. I already have latest driver so there is no way I need this driver. If you have auto-update on, which I don't, it will install automatically which has happened to a few people already. The drivers at Windows update do not have OpenGL driver so if you have any games that use OpenGL and this update installs you will have to mess around with installing ATI download driver again. I noticed the same problem, Windows update installed an older driver (identified as Catalyst 9.7 by CCC) when I had 9.9 already installed, so I had to reinstall 9.9 afterwards. It doesn't seem to be limited to ATI drivers. On my laptop with Nvidia gfx I was offered an older driver as "critical update" today. Ben I have never been offered drivers, even when running much older versions. |
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Eric Shune wrote:
I have never been offered drivers, even when running much older versions. Probably because you turned off the option to show optional updates. The problem now is that Microsoft has flagged them as critical updates, which they are not. If you run update now you should see the video driver update unless Microsoft has fixed their gaff already. |
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Automatic Updates is one of the first things I disable after installing
Windows, along with about 20 other useless Windows Services. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Anton Kolakov" wrote in message ... For some reason Windows update is offering people to install an ATI driver and claiming it is an important update instead of optional. I already have latest driver so there is no way I need this driver. If you have auto-update on, which I don't, it will install automatically which has happened to a few people already. The drivers at Windows update do not have OpenGL driver so if you have any games that use OpenGL and this update installs you will have to mess around with installing ATI download driver again. |
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First of One wrote:
Automatic Updates is one of the first things I disable after installing Windows, along with about 20 other useless Windows Services. Me too, but I installed MSSE on XP and Win7 today and Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to turn auto-updates back on without notifying me it would. Soon turned it off again though. I know when to check for updates and I even turn off auto-updates in AV software which might not be a good idea for some people but I manually have it check for updates daily. |
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Checking for AV updates daily is really overkill. :-) I update my Avira
Antivir definitions once a month and I download all kinds of cracks and no-CD patches without infection. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Anton Kolakov" wrote in message ... First of One wrote: Automatic Updates is one of the first things I disable after installing Windows, along with about 20 other useless Windows Services. Me too, but I installed MSSE on XP and Win7 today and Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to turn auto-updates back on without notifying me it would. Soon turned it off again though. I know when to check for updates and I even turn off auto-updates in AV software which might not be a good idea for some people but I manually have it check for updates daily. |
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Checking for AV updates daily is really overkill. :-) I update my
Avira Antivir definitions once a month and I download all kinds of cracks and no-CD patches without infection. You're lucky, perhaps I was just using a lame antivirus - Onecare, but somehow my machine ended up infested with the Tenga.a virus. I'm running Kaspersky on W7 64bit, ,and there are no issues with it. It has a gaming mode, that turns off pop ups etc which is pretty neat, I think. I haven't reinstalled everything yet, as I'll wait for my W7 to arrive in a couple of weeks time. |
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First of One wrote:
Checking for AV updates daily is really overkill. :-) I update my Avira Antivir definitions once a month and I download all kinds of cracks and no-CD patches without infection. Never heard of Zero Day virii? AV should be checked for updates every day if you are going to bother running AV software. AV software is usually updated every day too. |
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A few things make daily AV software updates overkill:
- Just because a zero-day virus is in the wild doesn't mean it has infected the file you happen to be downloading today. In fact virus propagation on the internet takes time. - When an AV software developer is made aware of a new virus in the wild, they still need time to analyze it and develop the signature, so even daily AV updates will lag behind virus threats by a few days. - Signatures is only one means of detecting viruses, the other being heuristics. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Anton Kolakov" wrote in message ... First of One wrote: Checking for AV updates daily is really overkill. :-) I update my Avira Antivir definitions once a month and I download all kinds of cracks and no-CD patches without infection. Never heard of Zero Day virii? AV should be checked for updates every day if you are going to bother running AV software. AV software is usually updated every day too. |
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