[FYI] MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html

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MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box  

By Thomas C Greene in Washington  

Posted: 30/06/2002 at 05:56 GMT  

If you caught our recent coverage of the Windows Media Player trio of 
security holes you may have followed a link to the TechNet download 
site for a patch, or you might have activated Windows Update. If you 
did the former (though, oddly, not if you did the latter), you would 
have been confronted with an End User License Agreement (EULA) 
stating, most ominously, that:  

"You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and 
software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), 
Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components 
that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These 
security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play 
Secure Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide 
such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post 
notices on a web site explaining the update."  

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