Both of WSUS Offline Update’s two stages (download/”generate” and install went without a hitch, and WPD (Windows Privacy Dashboard) showed that this month’s security-only updates hadn’t snuck in any unwanted telemetry (unlike last month’s). I’d previously read this article and checked the WSUS Offline Update download log to make sure that the August 2019 version of KB4474419 got downloaded.
I have a freshly cloned system drive to fall back on in case my system gets borked, and it only takes me 5 minutes or so to swap it in, so I’m willing to take more chances with updating and fewer chances with security vulnerabilities than, say, Woody Leonhard of AskWoody.) (I usually wait a bit longer for more fallout to emerge, but once again, this month’s RDP vulnerabilities are apparently “wormable” even if RDP isn’t in use or some-such. I installed this month’s security-only updates on my Windows 7 圆4 system using WSUS Offline Update.
