However beside backing up, running malware tools (which might not stop code brought in as an update) has anyone given much thought to a plan to preventing this from biting us in the butt ? But what about programs that offer an immediate update, one that may not be as safe (I am not calling out YL Computing, they been trustworthy as far as I can recall them). We know GAOTD has been very good about making sure the programs it offers are clean. I have been wondering about a potential problem for a while and hope others have too. Next I'll try killing the process and/or rebooting if needed.

If I try restarting WU, it again offers to download the update. Task manager identifies this as Setup/Uninstall (32 bit). Which does not close the window when selected. When I click on the icon it does nothing, hovering over it says it is a setup window, my only option appears to be right clicking and 'close window'. It stopped, leaving a taskbar icon (icon is a small gold cardboard box w/ a blue card sticking out).

However that install didn't finish completely. Installation and registration went as expected. Downloaded and installed on an i7 Win 8.1 laptop.

Download winutilities professional 15