Microsoft good at fighting viruses (?)
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 29 June 2004 - 09:33 · 14 comments & 1806 views
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#1 Posted by sentio on 29 Jun 2004 - 09:38
QUOTE slower than a snail with asthma.
Like, Woah
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#2 Posted by cork1958 on 29 Jun 2004 - 10:41
- Yeah, whoa!! And if you had auto update turned on for everything, you'd be slower yet. Especially on older systems.
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#3 Posted by womble68 on 29 Jun 2004 - 10:56
- Hmm, and I can see how autoupdate would sort out the bugs currently in Internet Explorer that haven't as yet been patched?!?!
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#3.1 Posted by threedaysdwn on 29 Jun 2004 - 16:27
- Um, like what?
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#3.2 Posted by tapo on 29 Jun 2004 - 17:33
- The image exploit, it's actually not only known, but being exploited, and still no patch from Microsoft.
CERT recommends that you switch to Firefox or Opera.
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#4 Posted by Wolfy_nailedyourmother on 29 Jun 2004 - 11:00
- Obviously not. But obviously users who seldom update (I know people who have had a computer for years and never bothered with windowsupdate, virus checkers etc) would be better off enabling it.
Yes? Good.
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#4.1 Posted by monkeyman_67156 on 20 Jul 2004 - 02:21
- Obviously you're a complete tool. Nobody likes you. Please go and die.
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#5 Posted by Grappa on 29 Jun 2004 - 17:07
- Riiiiiight, Bill.
Next you're going to tell us that whenever a site wants to install a component we should select "ALWAYS trust (Company X)"...
Do I need to remind anyone that it wasn't terribly long ago that Microsoft released an update that actually broke things?
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#5.1 Posted by tapo on 29 Jun 2004 - 17:35
- Exactly, I can't convince my father to run Windows Update, as he's afraid that it will break things. (Running Windows Update totally destroyed his last computer.)
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#6 Posted by rogerroger on 29 Jun 2004 - 19:01
- I just want to know who actually got tasked with finding snails with asthma and then recording their average speed! That would suck!
QUOTE Update complain that it is slower than a snail with asthma 
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#7 Posted by Fredde87 on 30 Jun 2004 - 01:06
- I for one agree with Gates, remember the RPC exploit, the patch was realased 14 days before blaster.. if everyone had windowsupdate on we wouldnt have had those problems.. neowin was flooded by idiots asking the same question how to fix it, if they just had updated their windows they wouldnt have had those problems... Windowsupdate is the one thing I think that microsoft is doing right, I hope they make it enabled + autoinstall as a standard in SP2 and longhorn....
According to the Associated Press, Gates pledged to make the average time to fix a problem will continue to come down. However, he said that the poor Vole was faced with the difficulty that people would not turn on auto-update. If they did, not only would their PCs work efficiently but they'd also be protected from the evil virus makers. We assume Gates meant that this was provided they also had firewalls and up-to-date virus scanning software too. Clearly Gates has not heard that users of Update complain that it is slower than a snail with asthma.
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