Just had an automatic update from microsoft

That ****** up my computer. After it installed I was unable to connect to the internet, so I had to do a system restore. Now there's the yellow shield with the exclamation mark sitting in my system tray wanting to install it again. Obviously, I don't want to. How do I tell it to **** off?

 

I'd like to know that too... can anyone help?

 

I swear I've had updates **** me over too, can't open firefox on my laptop at home. Just won't run.</p>

But I'm afraid in reply to your post, I have **** all idea.</p>

Would love to know though</p>

 

Turn off Automatic Updates in your Firewall Settings.

It will warn you every time you login that you could
be at risk but with AVG Version 8.0 you should be
fine.....

 

That's no good

I want automatic updates. I want my computer to be secure. I just don't want this particular update.

 

RE: That's no good

Apparently you can turn off automatic updates and do custom updates instead. According to this reply in a forum that is:

'...Then turn off the function to automatically install updates if you have that enabled, use the custom install option and install updates one by one until you see which one (if this is indeed the case) causes the problems.'

 

RE: That's no good

That's what I did a couple of months ago. There was just one of 4 updates that was making a mess of my internet connection. Needed to do it again the following month I seem to remember but now I'm back to auto updating.

 

microsoft /poo

 

Our server rebooted last night...

... following an automatic update, despite being set to "download and notify" !

Caused no end of problems for us (

That Bill Gates thinks he can do anything, bet he's one of them Illuminati (chinny)

 

Unplug your monitor and dip it in a bath of luke warm water (with no bubble bath obviously) then connect it all back up again immediately, switch it on. You should be facing a blank screen, some loud humming and potentially a bit of smoke. Using the mouse and your memory, try and locate the 'uninstall yellow shieldy thing' on the add/remove programs option and click 'ok'.

I think that will do it.

 

Have you any redeeming features? nt

 

Buy a mac nt

 

For The Sake of everybody else

which update is it that screwing you all over as mine is poised to install some stuff now and i dont wanna go down the same road as you guys have.

 

You say they're ****</p>

Way down on your list</p>

Who's your IT man ?</p>

Is it Mr Fist ?</p>

 

I think it's

Security Update for Windows XP (KB951748)

 

RE: Have you any redeeming features? nt

don´t have windows.
i have macintosh

 

Glad its not just me. I've got round it by clicking on control panel then clicking on my connection icon and opening it.

I think this may have happened before and they had to sort it out ( obviously ! )

 

Just found this

MS update KB951748 and ZoneAlarm --- PROBLEM

For those of you using ZoneAlarm who installed the windows updates today, you probably already know that your internet connection has died. It appears that KB951748 made changes to the networking files that ZA doesn't see/recognize.

After two hours of messing around, I found an inelegant solution that will work temporarily ... set the Internet Zone Security permission slider from high to medium. The connection will be restored.

I discovered this after I finally figured out ZA was blocking my internet connections, and turned it off. Once everything worked again as normal, I started playing around and hit on this lowered permission setting.

I imagine the ZA forum will be full of better solutions, but thought this would get you back up and running in the short term.

 

RE: For The Sake of everybody else

Mine are updates to Office.

I don't have the original CDs that it prompts me for every time I switch on the PC.

 

That's the boring way of doing it.