TSGL: Mouse Problem

[Don Penlington]

William wrote:
>... turn off automatic updates, most of the stuff MS tries to stuff down
>your throat is unnecessary for a home system,>>


I entirely agree.  At last, some wisdom prevails!

Conventional wisdom says to have auto updates always enabled.  I agree with 
William--most updates I've looked at seem to be overkill for single-user 
home use, and run the ever-present risk of stuffing something up.

I've never used auto-updates, mainly because I prefer to tighten up 
security manually.  Never had any security problems so far. Maybe I'm just 
lucky. And having a good ISP which filters out anything that looks nasty is 
really important.

Occasionally I'll get Bigfix to have a look, and update anything that looks 
important---you'll usually read about it somewhere anyway if some really 
drastic threat to security emerges, though I can't recollect anything much 
since SP2 came out.

Maybe if you're into chat rooms, file-sharing, downloading free 
screensavers etc from dubious sources, or a 'Net Newbie, then you might 
need most of those updates.  But if you're like most of us, reasonably 
cautious with our browsing, and operating in a low-risk environment (I 
mean--no kids roaming the 'Net unsupervised) then I reckon updating 
anything without very compelling reason is not worth the potential hassle.

William, we're both going to be hung and quartered for this blasphemy.

Don Penlington






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