Samsung disables Windows Update, leaving laptops open to hackers
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#C9MH)
Samsung software updater disables Microsoft's built-in Windows Update, which delivers critical patches for security bugs and holes among other fixes
Samsung is disabling Windows Update on some of its computers, leaving users exposed to security holes and bugs according to an independent Microsoft support engineer.
A system designed to help update Samsung's pre-installed software, called Samsung SW Update, used a program called "Disable_Windowsupdate.exe." to, as the name implies, disable Microsoft's built in update system for Windows.
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