On Friday 19 July 2013 17:18 Scott M wrote in uk.d-i-y:
And gets owned when you visit a hijack website in IE.
Just because you may (or not) be behind a firewall or NAT does not mean you are safe if you ignore patching.
There's a reason there are loads of botnets in China and it's because they are ripping off dodgey copies of Windows that the update servers won't (or didn't) touch.
Aren't a lot of Windows updates for security reasons? And do as many try and write viruses etc for Linux?
Not a problem with any computer.
On one machine that had a demo of Office 2010 on it eeven though its been uninstalled and deleted, Windows updates keeps sending me updates for it, occasionally requiring me to go back and delete them as it screws up Internet Explorer in XP so my screenreader cannot read the pages, it has also mucked up Firefox a few times by trying to update a web import tool of Word in the same package. I now always go to the sight and uncheck all the Office 2010 updates and hide them.
I'm told that if you know what you are doing you can edit the database file which is used, but sadly they are all listed as huge hex numbers so figuring out which are for what is a reat deal of hassle and make one mistake and Windows is toast for the next update. Brian
Brian
However the industry are still trying to get it extended as over 40 percent of users still use XP mostly those in businesses. I checked at some NHS places recently and they are all on XP. Brian
The search was an optional update, as was the power shell. I have noticed a speed up on old hardware myself. I think they have cleaned up the number of times things get run ie duplication. Brian
Depends on your distro again. If you've got Ksplice it won't need a reboot :-)
Of course you wouldn't need to in windows as it would have worked in the first place.
I had a xenix box that ran protocol conversion between ISO networking and TCP/IP (before TCP/IP became the defacto standard) and that stayed up for about 15 years and was only taken down when it was no longer needed, well actually five years after it was needed because we forgot it was there. It was an Intel 510 box IIRC and we were running RMX86 on others.
Did you forget the smiley?
Consider the number of times the advice for fixing problems with Windows is "Upgrade to the latest drivers".
I am constantly amazed that the Bing toolbar is listed as an optional update.
I am assuming that automatic updating will follow the same rules as the manual updating - optional updates will not be applied.
Cheers
Dave R
Thank goodness it's not mandatory.
With Windows 8 I set 'Download updates but let me choose whether to install them'
This avoids things like Bing and new versions of I.E.
But AFAICS you can't hide the bloody update option, as you can for other unwanted things, so every single time I have to untick it. Or is it just me?
I have certainly hidden it! And I have two entries for it in my "Restore hidden updates" list.
From memory, you right-click on it and select one of the options.
My setup only ticks the important ones, and doesn't tick the optional ones.
I don't remember if this is a system setting or not - you could have a look at your update settings just in case.
Cheers
Dave R
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