W7 update 14/04/10 WTF?

[Paul Drawmer]

When I shut down last night, W7 performed an update before switching off.
This morning, there was a 'finish off' done as the computer started, and a restart (so basically it restarted twice)

Then...after a bit I realised that it was running AVG which I had uninstalled a few weeks ago!

I uninstalled it again, and went to start MS Security Essentials - it wasn't installed, and I had to get it again from MS web site.

I presume tat this was a compulsory 'unbundling' simlar to IE - but it's f'ing confusing, and now users will now have either no virus checker, or something they uninstalled earlier.

Either that, or for some reason my computer has been set back to a previous restore point - how do I check this?

[anonymous-user]

Sorry OT but does the MS product give email protection? (incoming & outgoing scanning?). Thanks

[dundarach]

Just for info - Win7 64bit Ultimate, installed restarted and did nothing else after updates.

I would worry if yours installed or removed existing software.

[jamieboy]

dundarach said:

Just for info - Win7 64bit Ultimate, installed restarted and did nothing else after updates.

I would worry if yours installed or removed existing software.

Same here - various W7 32bit Ultimate and Professional. Updates installed, restarted, nothing unexpected at all AFAIK.

[elster]

All fine for me after the updates were installed.

W64 Ultimate.

[voyds9]

W7 x64 home premium installed updates, it had unpinned items from taskbar (firefox), easily restored.

[Ian_H]

Yup mine installed updates last night also (10 I think), it did take a long time to start up this morning but nothing untoward

[The_Jackal]

Maybe AVG wasn't uninstalled properly before you installed MSE, and caused one of the updates to crash.
More and more people are reporting problems with AVG these days especially the latest version.