What's with all these updates????

[rfdjr1]

I remember when once in a while, I'd get an update for Windows. Now it's every
day, and more than once a day. I just checked the update log and since the
beginning of the month, I've received more than 75 updates. Most of them are
listed as:

"Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable
Package (KB2538242)"

Each one says Successful under the Status column, and Important under the
Importance column.

Why so many? And 2005?? I'm using Windows 7 Professional, 64bit, which was
installed on a new system a little over a year ago, in 2010. Windows 7 wasn't
even around in 2005 that I'm aware of. What the hell is Microsoft doing? I
really don't like them constantly downloading to my machine. Anyone know what's
up? Thanks.

 

[Nil]

I remember when once in a while, I'd get an update for Windows.
Now it's every day, and more than once a day. I just checked the
update log and since the beginning of the month, I've received
more than 75 updates. Most of them are listed as:

"Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1
Redistributable Package (KB2538242)"

Each one says Successful under the Status column, and Important
under the Importance column.

Why so many? And 2005?? I'm using Windows 7 Professional, 64bit,
which was installed on a new system a little over a year ago, in
2010. Windows 7 wasn't even around in 2005 that I'm aware of.

The update isn't for Windows 7, it's for "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package", just as it says. The
Redistributable Package is a set of support files for programs written
in Visual C++. You must have installed such a program on your computer.

I have no idea why there are so many updates. I would have thought they
would all have had different Knowledge Base numbers (the KB number,)
but sometimes they don't. They're marked "Important" because they're
security updates.

 

[Drew]

I remember when once in a while, I'd get an update for Windows. Now it's every
day, and more than once a day. I just checked the update log and since the
beginning of the month, I've received more than 75 updates. Most of them are
listed as:

"Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable
Package (KB2538242)"

Each one says Successful under the Status column, and Important under the
Importance column.

Why so many? And 2005?? I'm using Windows 7 Professional, 64bit, which was
installed on a new system a little over a year ago, in 2010. Windows 7 wasn't
even around in 2005 that I'm aware of. What the hell is Microsoft doing? I
really don't like them constantly downloading to my machine. Anyone know what's
up? Thanks.

Running win7 pro 64 and going back to March 3 of 2010 I only have 7 of
these updates so something sounds a little weird. machine is fully
updated with all software updates.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

The update isn't for Windows 7, it's for "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package", just as it says. The
Redistributable Package is a set of support files for programs written
in Visual C++. You must have installed such a program on your computer.

I have no idea why there are so many updates. I would have thought they
would all have had different Knowledge Base numbers (the KB number,)
but sometimes they don't. They're marked "Important" because they're
security updates.

That flood of updates seems anomalous to me...

I have software that uses some version(s) of Visual C++ Redistributable,
but I sure don't see updates every 22.31 hours.

 

[richard]

I remember when once in a while, I'd get an update for Windows. Now it's every
day, and more than once a day. I just checked the update log and since the
beginning of the month, I've received more than 75 updates. Most of them are
listed as:

"Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable
Package (KB2538242)"

Each one says Successful under the Status column, and Important under the
Importance column.

Why so many? And 2005?? I'm using Windows 7 Professional, 64bit, which was
installed on a new system a little over a year ago, in 2010. Windows 7 wasn't
even around in 2005 that I'm aware of. What the hell is Microsoft doing? I
really don't like them constantly downloading to my machine. Anyone know what's
up? Thanks.

C++ is a programming language and if you look in programs and features you
will find it listed.

There's only one reason for so much activity on updates.
They want to know what's on your machine and what you're doing.
I got fed up with the multitude of updates and just turned the damn
updating thing off.

Monthly updates would be fine. Even quarterly.
But 4 times a day? IMO, that is spyware at work.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

C++ is a programming language and if you look in programs and features you
will find it listed.

Not so, unless the OP has installed, not the language, but a development
system or compiler. Then he would see, not C++, but the development
system or compiler...

There's only one reason for so much activity on updates.
They want to know what's on your machine and what you're doing.
I got fed up with the multitude of updates and just turned the damn
updating thing off.

Not at all. If that were so, the OP's experience would be universal, and
as you can see from the other posts in this thread, it is quite unusual.

More likely is some corruption of his system, perhaps even some malware,
triggering the phenomenon.

Or perhaps the updates are failing in a very subtle way, causing them to
be redone.

Monthly updates would be fine. Even quarterly.
But 4 times a day? IMO, that is spyware at work.

Time to buy a tinfoil hat.

If there is spyware (or a worm or virus), it is not the C++
Redistributable or Windows, but something alien that the OP let into his
system.

 

[Nil]

Monthly updates would be fine. Even quarterly.
But 4 times a day? IMO, that is spyware at work.

I think you're letting your paranoia get the best of you. If "they"
want to spy on you, there are plenty of more transparent ways of doing
it.

 

[Stan Brown]

Monthly updates would be fine. Even quarterly.
But 4 times a day? IMO, that is spyware at work.

I agree that it's annoying. But calling it spyware is just silly.

 

[SC Tom]

Not so, unless the OP has installed, not the language, but a development
system or compiler. Then he would see, not C++, but the development
system or compiler...


Not at all. If that were so, the OP's experience would be universal, and
as you can see from the other posts in this thread, it is quite unusual.

More likely is some corruption of his system, perhaps even some malware,
triggering the phenomenon.

Or perhaps the updates are failing in a very subtle way, causing them to
be redone.


Time to buy a tinfoil hat.

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You have to make your own. Retail ones are totally untrustworthy.
Even paranoids have enemies, you know. . .

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

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You have to make your own. Retail ones are totally untrustworthy.
Even paranoids have enemies, you know. . .

Three things I never trust to a third party:
1) Building my computer
2) Folding my foil hat
3) Fathering my children

 

[XS11E]

Three things I never trust to a third party:
1) Building my computer
2) Folding my foil hat
3) Fathering my children

And yet the DNA test shows.... On the Next Jerry Springer Show! <G>

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

And yet the DNA test shows.... On the Next Jerry Springer Show! <G>

I didn't know computers had DNA!

 

[Tester]

I didn't know computers had DNA!

And that is why you are a convicted pedophile! Dummy bastard.

 

[Ed Cryer]

And that is why you are a convicted pedophile! Dummy bastard.

Bird-brained, low-life moron!

Ed

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Ed Cryer

As you sow thus do you reap, low-life. To be good you must learn to do
good. And until you do the world will be too much with you; reflecting
back the bad you do.

And to ease your guilty conscious you cannot successfully project it
onto others; you must learn to confess it before the tribunal of your
own better self.

Ed

I have the feeling the name "grasshopper" is going to appear in this
discussion soon (-:!

 

[Tester]

As you sow thus do you reap, low-life. To be good you must learn to do
good. And until you do the world will be too much with you; reflecting
back the bad you do.

And to ease your guilty conscious you cannot successfully project it
onto others; you must learn to confess it before the tribunal of your
own better self.

Ed

If you want to be accepted by the learned society then you must do two
things:

1) Learn to write better English;
2) Stop abusing young boys;

If you don't do these two basic requirements then your application to be
a a member of the respectable society shall always rejected and you
shall always be known as a pedophile who will be hunted down till your
death.

Good bye child abuser.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

You have to make your own. Retail ones are totally untrustworthy.
Even paranoids have enemies, you know. . .

I must point out top you that you must be *very* careful where you
obtain your tinfoil. *Very* careful...

Crash's reply to you gave me a good laugh, as did XS's.

 

[Nil]

I must point out top you that you must be *very* careful where you
obtain your tinfoil. *Very* careful...

Of course. Tin foil can be bugged.

 

[charlie]

Of course. Tin foil can be bugged.

Tin Foil works, Aluminum Foil doesn't.
Finding real Tin foil can be quite a task!

 

[SC Tom]

Tin Foil works, Aluminum Foil doesn't.
Finding real Tin foil can be quite a task!

Now you're letting them in. Better change out now while you still can.

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