Unfortunately this silent update itself is not the biggest issue. The history teaches us that any new feature in Windows brings another security breach with it.

Unfortunately this silent update itself is not the biggest issue. The history teaches us that any new feature in Windows brings another security breach with it. I'm 80% sure we'll soon have a virus that will exploit WU and will silently install itself even if your automatic updates are off. (dfranke, do you read your emails? I sent you 2 emails already. Remember our conversation about SQL?)