Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Updates Question

I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However, something keeps turning
it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates Automatticaly"
for any reason and or know of a fix for this?


BTW, I have seen this happen on several computers now.

Thanks

On 17/06/2011 13:34, wrote:
> I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However, something keeps turning
> it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates Automatticaly"
> for any reason and or know of a fix for this?
>

Yes, switch over to Linux!
-- choro --
>
> BTW, I have seen this happen on several computers now.
>
> Thanks
>
>

wrote:
> I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However, something keeps turning
> it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates Automatticaly"
> for any reason and or know of a fix for this?
>
>
> BTW, I have seen this happen on several computers now.
>
> Thanks
>
>

If you can't find another solution, go to Services and disable Automatic Update service ?

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...omatic-Updates

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/wuauserv.htm

You could try further research on wuauserv .

Disabling that service, is apparently something malware does, so that
suggests Microsoft is relying on that for their malware tools (virus updates).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959894

Does MSSE have a manual update in the menu ? You'd need some
way for it to get updates on a regular basis.

*******

OK, this is pretty clever.

http://www.windowsbbs.com/general-se...-findings.html

"I have a cmd file I made that:
1. starts Automatic Update service.
2. starts MS Antimalware service.
3. updates MSE.
4. stops those two services."

This is a snippet of code. It saves a step and does the same thing.

net start wuauserv
"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Security Essentials\MpCmdRun.exe" -SignatureUpdate
net stop wuauserv

Maybe you can cook something up with that.

HTH,
Paul

On 17 Jun 2011 12:34:16 GMT, wrote:

>I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However, something keeps turning
>it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates Automatticaly"
>for any reason and or know of a fix for this?
>
I use MSE and have Windows auto update turned off as well.
It's never turned mine back on.



Frederick J. Barnett
"Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone

wrote:
> I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However,
> something keeps turning it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone
> else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates
> Automatticaly" for any reason and or know of a fix for this?

No. Windows Update has four options, and whichever one I pick, sticks. I
normally have it set to the third option:

1) Install updates automatically (recommended)
2) Download updates but let me choose whether to install them
3) Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them
4) Never check for updates (not recommended)

--
Crash

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~

Chet wrote:

> I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However,
> something keeps turning it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone
> else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates
> Automatticaly" for any reason and or know of a fix for this?

MSSE isn't doing that. Perhaps you have security software that protects
the state of settings. You change the settings and it changes them
back. Got anything other than MSSE installed on your host for security
or privacy software?

While MSSE uses the Automatic Updates service to get its updates, it
doesn't alter the Windows Update option. Even if you configure Windows
Updates to never check for updates (and obviously then also not to
download or install them), disabling the AU service will prevent MSSE
from getting its updates.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959894

> BTW, I have seen this happen on several computers now.

I suspect what is common amongst these multiple computers is a single
user. You've done something on each computer and why the symptom has
shown up on each computer. It moves as you move.

choro wrote:

> Chet wrote:
>
>> I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However,
>> something keeps turning it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone
>> else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates
>> Automatticaly" for any reason and or know of a fix for this?
>
> Yes, switch over to Linux!

Oooh, goochie goochie goo, whadda cute widdle baby you are. Hee hee hee
hee hee, you looks so funny banging on the keyboard to imitate Daddie.

choro on the keyboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XKnpkYTtIY

On 6/17/2011, VanguardLH posted:
> choro wrote:

>> Chet wrote:
>>
>>> I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for updates." However,
>>> something keeps turning it back on and I suspect it is MSSE. Anyone
>>> else seen automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates
>>> Automatticaly" for any reason and or know of a fix for this?
>>
>> Yes, switch over to Linux!

> Oooh, goochie goochie goo, whadda cute widdle baby you are. Hee hee hee
> hee hee, you looks so funny banging on the keyboard to imitate Daddie.

> choro on the keyboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XKnpkYTtIY

Judging by her frustration, she must have been interfacing with a Linux
distro.

In about a year, she'll probably be texting her toddler friends, ya
think?

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

In news:SLIKp.7624$2,
choro <> typed:
> On 17/06/2011 13:34, wrote:
>> I alway set automatic updates to "Never check for
>> updates." However, something keeps turning it back on and I suspect it
>> is MSSE. Anyone else seen
>> automatic updates revert back to "Install Updates
>> Automatticaly" for any reason and or know of a fix for
>> this?
>
> Yes, switch over to Linux!
> -- choro --

Oh, there's an intelligent moron! IQ must almost match his age.


>>
>> BTW, I have seen this happen on several computers now.
>>
>> Thanks

According to this, installing MSSE does turn Windows Update back on.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/anti-viru...es-setting-804


Just for grins, I uninstalled MSSE, set Windows update to never, installed MSSE and Windows update was set back to automatic.


Must be happening to somebody other than me for the article to get written.