To Update or Not to Update?


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We ran mbam - pulled off some infections, now moving forward.  He just really didnt want things to change once he had things the way he liked it.  

Whatever the reasoning for his behavior, he started a thread about, was open to suggestions, and most importantly agreed with me :D  no Im kidding - most importantly, acted on the new information.

Now, installing an AV, and going to do local complete system backups - so - I would say this thread has been a success... but apparently Kelxin thinks I am a sheep creating more sheep for installing updates - at least I think thats what he was getting at with his 

 

 

Nice job man! \m/

We ran mbam - pulled off some infections, now moving forward.  He just really didnt want things to change once he had things the way he liked it.  

Whatever the reasoning for his behavior, he started a thread about, was open to suggestions, and most importantly agreed with me :D  no Im kidding - most importantly, acted on the new information.

Now, installing an AV, and going to do local complete system backups - so - I would say this thread has been a success... but apparently Kelxin thinks I am a sheep creating more sheep for installing updates - at least I think thats what he was getting at with his 

 

 

 

Pushing people to blindly install updates (or have full automatic updates turned on) does indeed nudge them to becoming a blind sheep one step at a time, and anyone admitting to having a problem with wanting to go through updates without blindly installing them is not having a problem at all, and you suggesting that they do have a problem again is trying to make more people into sheep, so baaahh to you.

Reasons such as this entire conversation is why Windows 10 (not Pro or enterprise) doesn't even have an option to turn off updates or even pick which ones you want.

 

Pushing people to blindly install updates (or have full automatic updates turned on) does indeed nudge them to becoming a blind sheep one step at a time, and anyone admitting to having a problem with wanting to go through updates without blindly installing them is not having a problem at all, and you suggesting that they do have a problem again is trying to make more people into sheep, so baaahh to you.

Reasons such as this entire conversation is why Windows 10 (not Pro or enterprise) doesn't even have an option to turn off updates or even pick which ones you want.


Well - maybe you should try reading the actual threads - instead of just spouting off.  


Either you aren't reading, cant read very well, dont understand what you are reading, or are just blindly following me around in the forum commenting on all my posts - which is a little weird.

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. but apparently Kelxin thinks I am a sheep creating more sheep for installing updates - at least I think thats what he was getting at with his 

 

 

I read his post, gave it about .00001 sec of thought and moved on to the rest of this very informative and helpful post. This is how it should be, this is how it should work. Again, nice job. 

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