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Story: Windows patches may become automatic
Posted by: Andrew MacLachlan (Wednesday 3 September 2003, 12:25 AM)
I think that this behaviour should be enabled by default, as this will mean that the vast majority of home & small office users will be protected. For larger organisations that have an IT/security team, this functionality is controlled via group policy.
I have to admit to being rather nervous about this technology when it first appeared, however I have come to trust it - with *only* one duff patch (that was replaced reasonably quickly) having been issued thus far. I have Auto-update enabled on my home PC as well as the built-in personal firewall enabled and a good anti-virus installed as well and as such have not been affected by any of the recent virus/worm panics, apart from my anti-virus dropping some infected emails, and my firewall logs growing faster than normal.
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Story: Windows patches may become automatic
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Here we go again: A major U.S. firm hops on a cris... Keith E. Risler -
Considering how long it takes to download and impl... David Hoare
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Whilst there are obvious benefits to this idea, it... Anonymous
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This is a ridiculas idea. MS should make the produ... Anonymous
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You want a nice Apple Mac, you do John S. ELrick
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Windows XP comes with a firewall?? I don't think s... Bob Walker
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FAO DAvid Hoare....
The information is available i... Jonathan
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Great, so we have 5 billion computers trying to do... Tony S
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I think this is ridiculous.
I certainly wouldn't w... Peter Munro
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I think that this behaviour should be enabled by d... Andrew MacLachlan
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