Comments on: Prevent, Block and Disable Automatic Updates Install of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) for Controlled Upgrade

By: dave

dave — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:34:53 +0000

Damn, imagine elaines scenario, if your in sys admin, getting to work and having 100+ users not beng able to use their email, because of an automatic update. Sounds a bit like bit of fun i had with winxp pro sp2 and auto update 890830 malicious software remover. This copied the login details but removed the user profile, wont go into this here, if it decided that any nasties were in the user profile..you didnt even have a chance to confirm almighty change to your system it just did it. Come to work Monday and walk into this…sort of thing ..tell you what i have been hearing…go linux!..\i’m not a linux user..yet but (expletive) updates like these that are offical ms updates..the update developers need to be put against a wall and you know the rest.. Linux is looking more attractive if not rather foriegn and microsoft are trying to keep market share..the updates they release are the cause of half the issues with there software..what does that tell you. No direction and to many fingers in the pie.

By: Elena Saville

Elena Saville — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:45:24 +0000

IE7 was downloaded to my computer without any warning. Now IE7 blocks every meaningful dialog with all sites that I need. Adding these sites to ‘trusted sites’ does not help.Nothing else helps. I am switching to Netscape.

By: Internet Explorer 7 Reviews » My Digital Life

Internet Explorer 7 Reviews » My Digital Life — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:25:37 +0000

[...] Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) is the latest next generation graphical web browser from Microsoft for Microsoft Windows series of operating system. IE7 features enhanced security framework, protection against phishing, deceptive or malicious software, full user control of ActiveX, various bug fixes, enhancements to support the web standards, improvements in HTML 4.01/CSS 2, tabbed browsing, tabs preview, tabs management, and web RSS feeds reader. Windows users can download Internet Explorer 7 directly from Microsoft Download Center (learn how to install IE7 bypassing Windows Genuine Advantage validation), and Microsoft will roll out IE7 via Automatic Updates as High Priority Updates (learn how to block and prevent automatic download and installation of IE7). LAPTOP Magazine reviews Internet Explorer 7 and also compares IE with FireFox, and comes to conclusion with rating of 4 out 5 that “in the grand battle between Firefox and IE, we think that IE has a bit of an edge in this release, although the Firefox 2 betas we have seen will catch it up a bit. Many of the things we like about Firefox have been implemented in IE7 and have been polished to be more streamlined and useful. For those of us who spend a lot of time researching and working on the Web, IE7 represents the best and most aggressive IE upgrade we’ve seen in a while.” [...]