TSGL: Mouse Problem

[William Pike]

That's ok, won't be the first time for either of us.

I look at the updates and read the details and usually find that the so
called holes require someone to be physically at my computer, or for my
computer to be attached to a workgroup. Well since I don't have multiple
users on my machine and my network is fully shared between all machines, I
don't need them.....


William Pike
whpike at cox.net
 whpike at gmail.com

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Don Penlington
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:36 AM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Mouse Problem

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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