On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:31:57 +1300, "Harry Johnston [MVP]"
<harry@scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:

>foobar5@home.com wrote:
>
>> When I went to shut my computer down tonight, instead of the normal
>> standby, turn off, restart popup, I had that, but there was a Windows
>> security shield superimposed on the turn off icon, and a message at
>> the bottom of the popup saying "Click Turn Off to install important
>> updates and turn off your computer. Click here to turn off without
>> installing updates."
>
>Start by looking in WindowsUpdate.log (usually found in c:\windows). If you
>have trouble interpreting it, post the last hundred lines or so here.
>
> Harry.
>

There are around 1300 pieces of activity in my
c:\windows\windowsupdate.log for 2008-10-14. There are already 51
activities for 2008-10-15 and the day is young!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1ME2YPEQ has the file as it currently
exists.

FWIW, my c:\windows directory has 16 files from 2008-09-09 (September
patch Tuesday), one from 2008-09-23, and the following from
2008-10-14:

* KB956390-IE7.log
* setupapi.log
* SchedLgU.Txt
* bootstat.dat
* wiaservc.log
* wiadebug.log
* 0.log (NOTE: zero-length file)

And there's the WindowsUpldate.log, which was time stamped 04:51 this
morning, from when I got on. As I said, 51 entries in it.

A cursory scan of the logs shows nothing too weird. I'm guessing that
KB956390 related to IE7 is the only thing it's trying to install.

Still feel funny about how Windows is just pushing an update or
updates on me without telling me what they are.