Following an earlier report on the 14 September by Scott Dunn on the Windows Secrets Web site that the Windows Update service made changes to files on both Windows XP and Vista, without prompting the user for permission, Nate Clinton, Microsoft Update program manager responded on the October 12 in a posting on the Microsoft update product team blog denying that Automatic Updates had made any changes to a users’ automatic update settings, several possible explanations for automatic updates were later added.

Now a recent report on the Windows Secrets web site states that Windows Live OneCare, an Operating System security service featuring an integrated protection suite could be among the root causes of ongoing unwanted automatic updates to Windows programs and applications by silently changing the automatic update settings causing the automatic installation of patches followed by an overnight reboot.

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