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Internet Explorer 8 Automatic Delivery Blocker

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New page: In these days Internet Explorer 8 will be delivered as High Priority update via Automatic Updates; Microsoft published a toolkit, named "Internet Explorer 8 Blocker Toolkit": http://www.m...
In these days Internet Explorer 8 will be delivered as High Priority update via Automatic Updates; Microsoft published a toolkit, named "Internet Explorer 8 Blocker Toolkit":

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=21687628-5806-4BA6-9E4E-8E224EC6DD8C&displaylang=en

which disables or later reenables this behaviour.
It consists of an executable, which extracts a .cmd file and a .amd policy.

The install and remove commands in the following WPKG installer are taken from the relevant parts of this script.
<source lang="xml">
<package id="ie8ADblocker"
name="Internet Explorer 8 Automatic Delivery Blocker"
revision="1"
priority="1000"
reboot="false"
execute="once" >
<install cmd='REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\8.0" /v DoNotAllowIE80 /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f' />
<remove cmd='REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\8.0" /v DoNotAllowIE80 /f' />
</package>
</source>

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