Hi.
Putting on my professional hat, and wanting to avoid misconceptions, the
critical updates that come from windows update refer to system and IE
issues almost exclusively.
Additionally, it's substantially more dangerous to your system security
to not update than to update. There are many exploits for systems that
are found quite frequently. Failure to keep systems secure results in
them being compromised, and acting as a further vector for infection of
other systems.
To use a current hot topic by analogy, would you handle sick chickens in
asia without taking basic precautions?
My advice? Set your computer only get the critical updates. This is
what I do on my windows systems.
Gabriel
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In a message dated 5/3/2006 1:13:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is one worry about not getting the updates from Microsoft, in that any
security holes are not plugged until you do the update manually, and nor
will any other bug-fixes have been installed.
I let my systems get the updates automatically, having set them to check for
updates at midnight each day, and if I get an update alert from Microsoft
during the day I can normally stop for long enough to let it go through.
Since I distribute custom software from my PC's to my clients, I'm paranoid
about having everything up-to-date, security updates particularly, as well
as having my AV software on auto-update as well. Can't afford to be
trojaning my clients!
YMMV, of course
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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About 80-90% of the security updates for XP are for Outlook. If you don't use
Outlook (I, for instance, use AOL) you don't need them. But, yes, there are
other types of updates. A lot of them are language updates. One can still go to
the web page and selectively choose the updates one wants.
Marnie aka Doe :-)
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