Microsoft's patch installs Skype, which by default makes MSN your home page and Bing your search engine
If you were somehow possessed to install the "optional" KB 2876229 patch, make sure you uncheck the correct installer boxes, or your Internet Explorer home page will be hijacked and the default search engine changed. That's the default behavior of this boorish Microsoft KB-numbered installer, pushed through the Windows Update chute.
Yesterday's fourth-Tuesday patch round included a rather special patch. Identified as "Skype for Windows desktop 7.0 (KB2876229)," it's an unchecked patch offered up for systems that don't already have Skype installed. (See Figure.)
http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/03/wl-2015-03-25-skype-optional-update-100575390-medium.idge.jpgThis "optional" update isn't an update at all -- it calls up the Skype installer
While you might expect Windows Update to include, uh, Windows updates, this is a patch of a different color. If you check the box and install KB 2876229, Microsoft runs the Windows-based Skype installer. It's the plain vanilla Skype installer, not an update or a patch.
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