I hate the automatic updates. I turned off automatic updates in my control panel. Microsoft kept trying to make me install something called Microsoft Genuine Advantage, which they tried to sugarcoat and make sounding like it was to "help me" to know that my windows was legitimate (which it is). I don't want this software, it is spyware in my opinion, it connects to the internet to send information on my system to Microsoft, and I choose not to do this.
Anyways, I had turned off automatic updates, and it was trying to trick me to install it anyways, by putting an "install updates now" choice thing ALONG with my shut down computer thing (if you read the fine print there was a little spot where you could click to shut down without installing)...anyways, I did that, keeping auto updates off, and declining to install this Genuine Advantage crap. Well today, a prompt kept popping up saying 'your computer will restart automatically to install updates".... I checked on 'restart later', but this is crap! I then checked my control panel on automatic updates and lo and behold Microsoft somehow had this turned on to automatic again. Bastards.
of course, this is a principle thing, shouldnt we have control over our own systems? Basically, somehow Microsoft set this up to connect to the internet without my express intended permission and download and install software on my system. They deserve to be sued.
