MySQL Bugs: #82087: Unwanted cmd popup from Installer

Bug #82087	Unwanted cmd popup from Installer
Submitted:	3 Jul 2016 9:12	Modified:	2 Dec 2017 0:37
Reporter:	Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor)	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL for Windows: Installer	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	any recent	OS:	Windows
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Every dayat 11:00 cmd.exe pops up on my screen. The reason is that the MySQL installer is configured to check for a catalog/manifest update daily at 11:00. This is handled by the Windos Schduler

If takes a fraction of a seconds mostly and thus too fast to see what is executed. Due to thsi  asactually uncertain on at was going on anworrid if it was some kind of malware.

How to repeat:
See above.

Suggested fix:
It is easy to avoid the popup. The popup only appears if the scheduled job is running with the privileges of the user that is currently logged on. 

Like most AV updaters do (for instance) I suugest that the job is scheduled to run with the privileges of system user 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM' instead. 

This will also resolve another issue: if teh user, who defined the schedule, is deleted from teh system, the job will not run currently.

Ouch .. what a lot of typos I wrote.

In particular this sentence needs correction "Due to this I was actually uncertain about what was going on and worried if it was some kind of malware."

Thank you for the bug report.

Bug #82155 marked as duplicate of this

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=86081 marked as duplicate of this one.

.. additionally .. nowadays it seems that the popup does not do anything at all/does not detect any new versions of any MySQL software installed.

Posted by developer:
 
Fixed on 1.4.21

Posted by developer:
 
Fixed as of the upcoming MySQL Installer 1.4.21 release, and here's the changelog entry:

When the catalog was scheduled to update automatically, a task window for
the update operation was displayed at the same time each day. This fix
eliminates the visual alert.

Thank you for the bug report.