Auto Update / SP2

[kurttrail]

This is what I have been wondering.
I have been perfectly able, with a good firewall, spyware washers and
online and installed AV to maintain a secure and safe system. I was
probably going to disable the Security Centre when i had received and
installed SP2. This leaves me with just the bells and whistles of SP2.

I'm beginning to think i am being sort of railroaded into *having* to
install SP2 because I am told to by MS and others who have downloaded
it

The big question is: do we *have* to install SP2 over a secure system
which I'm confident I have. Or am I just being sold by the hype and
mass hysteria over the thing
Regards
Sheri

A smart computer user doesn't have to rely on MS to protect their computers.

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[Irwin Greenwald]

Jupiter:

Thanks for the info and link. Would be nice if MS had let users know
instead of having to guess what's going on.

Irwin

 

[C. A. Upsdell]

A smart computer user doesn't have to rely on MS to protect their
computers.

Neither does a smart computer user ignore what MS offers to protect their
computers.

 

[kurttrail]

Neither does a smart computer user ignore what MS offers to protect
their computers.

First, I never said "ignore." I said "A smart computer user doesn't have to
rely on MS."

Just look at corporations. Some will take as long as six months to install
a Service Pack on their machines.

MS has a long history of having to redo patches that they have previously
released, so a smart computer user doesn't just install any MicroBandaid
without waiting to see what problems others have with it.

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[Dave Cohen]

That's fine, but a message telling about that with the download request
would have been helpful...

<snipped>
I permitted auto download to start a few days back, but the indicated
file size was huge and I'm on dial-up. After I logged off, nothing has
happened on subsequent log ons.
I understand this is to be available on cd, not sure if I want to
install it. I have all earlier updates, but my ultimate security is an
upto date image file.
If a user exits the system while an automatice download is in process,
does the update pick up when next logged on?
Dave Cohen