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How To Block IE7 in Windows Update (if you’re not too late!)

Posted in: Browsers,General,Security by Richard Hearne on July 27, 2006
Internet Marketing Ireland

Microsoft has announced that IE7 will be distributed via Windows Update with the ‘high-priority’ tag. If your like me (hardened FF user) you probably would rather block Windows from automatically installing the latest IE iteration from Microsoft (well at least till we see how buggy and insecure it is).

MS is offering a tool that lets you to disable automatic delivery of this update – its available at the MS website.

I just wonder if this is going to be another WGA fiasco?

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