[gildeon]

Hello,

as we know, recently our friends at Microsoft started to "backport" the spyware features to Windows 7 and 8.1 as Windows Update updates.
I have a question - can we trust any update, on any system version, published after 1st of August, 2015? Should we analyze and whitelist updates instead of just searching for the rogue ones? What if there was a spyware feature sneaked into an important security bugfix?

Can we trust Microsoft anymore on the older systems?

I want to know about your opinion,
gildeon.

[EP_X0FF]

No trust for any update since 2014. Not only because they can contain spyware but also because they are often unstable and absolutely untested. That the new Microsoft face.

[Munsta]

Microsoft have no guns, people with guns collect metadata, if that metadata shows you are an interesting person -> Critical update count++

Its that simple :)

[gildeon]

I'm not really sure how is "interesting" defined by Microsoft, but I can guess the richest people with credit cards will have the highest amount of critical updates