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MS-DEFCON 1: There’s no reason in the world to leave Automatic Update turned on

Posted on October 8, 2018 at 07:51 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Time to turn off Automatic Update again.

If you survived the brutal barrage of bad patches in July, and avoided the 1809 carnage last week, you should understand why.

Details in Computerworld: Woody on Windows.

Windows Patches/Security MS-DEFCON 1, October 2018 Black Tuesday

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