Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?
I'm worried about friends, family, and small businesses that run Windows with install updates set to automated mode...<p>Shouldn't Microsoft be signing updates so that redirection attacks don't work?<p>Edit:<p>Elaborating on my question; I mean much more like Linux distributions which sign both packages (updates) and the index of those files.  Some distributions use multiple hashs/digests to make collision attacks far less likely to succeed.<p>Such an attack could be either the traffic at layer 3 redirected via router compromise, via some name resolution weakness (possibly even to localhost as a way of malware upgrading from being able to edit the hosts file to having system level services).<p>The signing of both the update files and the list of updates could offer protection from an attack that would thus need to be valid for all of the signature checks, not just a single check.