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Posted by What's in a Name? on June 22, 2005, 12:42 pm
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> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:09:30 -0400, What's in a Name?
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>>I have written a few lines....
>>http://home.neo.rr.com/manna4u/keepingclean.html
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> I concur with most of what you have written but I cannot agree with
> you about Microsoft's so-called "updates". I have personal experience
> where one of them trashed my Win2K SP4 installation and I had to
> restore my disaster recovery archive after wasting a day trying to fix
> it.
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> Microsoft acknowledges that there is a serious problem trying to patch
> someone's system. MS has proposed a test simulator which checks if the
> updates are stable on your machine and if not allows you to roll back.
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> I rely on the Service Packs to provide me with security updates. I
> rely on the things you enumerate on your website. I do not use IE
> unless forced to and then only if I really trust the site. I do not
> use OE or any of the other apps from MS that are known to be
> vulnerable to attacks.
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> If you are going to advise people to use MS upgrade, it might be
> valuable to warn them of the issues surrounding it.
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I also have had issues with updates(it was a updated driver for my cable
modem-caused it to stop working).I think you are right and I need to
make some additions. I still think that for the average user,autoupdates
are nesessary because they will forget to update their systems.
-max
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