|rifleman wrote:
|
|> In article <
[email protected]>,
|> (e-mail address removed) says...
|> |leushino wrote:
|> |
|> |> Today I received a message that the critical update:
|> |> 810217 was ready to be downloaded. It said something about front
|> |> page server extensions and malicious code being run on my computer.
|> |> I don't use front page so is this an update I should download?
|> |> Really, I wonder about all of these updates. There's a temptation
|> |> to make them download automatically but then I wonder if I'll be
|> |> downloading things that are unnecessary or even counter-productive.
|> |> Thanks.
|> |
|> |Please download and install critical security updates. If you run a
|> |Windows operating system on a machine that is on the Internet and/or
|> |on any kind of network, you need to keep it updated. I wouldn't worry
|> |about installing the other non-critical updates from Windows Update
|> |if you don't know what they are, and I would never upgrade drivers
|> |from the WU site. But critical security updates - absolutely yes.
|> |
|> |Malke
|> |
|> But if the update is a critical update that is meant to fix a
|> vulnerability in software that the OP HASN'T GOT, then WHY should he
|> download the update?
|> Waste of bandwidth and disk space.
|
|For fsck's sake - most regular Windows users don't know whether they
|need an update or not and so it is far better to tell them to install
|the *critical security* updates than not. Otherwise you get a zillion
|machines compromised with something like msblaster or welchia. Note
|that I carefully said I wouldn't bother with the *non-critical* updates
|and certainly not the drivers. We really don't need more zombie boxen
|being used in DDoS attacks or acting as open relay for spammers on the
|Internet, thank you.
|
|Malke
|
but the OP is obviously NOT your "ordinary" XP user because he actually
took the trouble to note what the update was for, and didn't blindly
install it anyway!
