What is this "Weird garbled Windows 7 update"?

[Razer]

Suppose it's a way to mass-distribute a dead 'canary', offed by someone
in the company who knows something the company wasn't willing to kill
it's 'canary' over?

Just rumormongering...

RR



On 10/01/2015 11:08 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> Looks like microsoft are owned.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/30/windows_update_glitch/
> ----
> Windows 7 users were left scratching their heads on Wednesday when a
> mysterious garbled patch appeared in Windows Update, origins unknown.
> ...
> Its description mostly contained garbled text. Links for more
> information, help, and support were filled in with gibberish URLs with
> ".gov," ".mil," and ".edu" domains.
> ...
> The Register poked Microsoft about the issue, and a spokesman told us:
> "We incorrectly published a test update and are in the process of
> removing it."
> ----
>
>
> "test update" containing .gov,.mil and .edu URLs, lol...
>
>


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