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# Autoupdate
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Autoupdate is a malicious [software](software.md) [feature](feature.md) that frequently remotely modifies software on the user's device without asking, sometimes silently and many times in a forced manner without the possibility to refuse this modification (typically in [proprietary](proprietary.md) software). This is a manifestation of [update culture](update_culture.md). These remote software modifications are called "updates" to make the user think they are a good thing, but in fact they usually introduce more [bugs](bug.md), [bloat](bloat.md), security vulnerabilities, annoyance (forced reboots etc.) and [malware](malware.md) (even in "[open source](open_source.md)", see e.g. the many projects on [GitHub](github.md) that introduced intentional malware targeted at Russian users during the Russia-Ukraine war). |