It is a shame that MS mixes it all in with a bunch of crap you definitely do not need, but you do definitely need to update Microsoft. That infamous Conficker worm? That’s based on a flaw that was patched last October – those untold millions of infected PCs belong to people who turned off automatic updates.
Each month, Microsoft releases fixes for some ten to twenty critical security flaws. I do the data entry for those, which this month will be tomorrow – yay! More often than not the security flaws are described as permitting the “complete compromise of affected computers”. It’s actually a rare one that they bother to fix that won’t allow an interloper to drink all your beer and impregnate your cat.
I don’t get why anyone would bother resorting to abbreviations to insult ivn in some rule-skirting way when you could just call him a fucking moron and be done with it.
I originally had a post about how reporting that post was stupid, but I thought it might have come off as Junior Modding. With the trouble Carol Stream got for that, I didn’t want to risk it. But I’m more bold now: The whole point of the line he quoted is to encompass variations that include the word. Gfactor has indicated that, unless you use the specific words given, you will not get in trouble. And, even if you did, you’d just get a Mod Note.
Anyways, as for the subject of the OP: I don’t mind automatic updates. Just don’t interrupt what I’m doing. Upgrade when the computer is idle. In the background isn’t so bad, if the processor and/or disk use isn’t too high, but, since so many seem to involve rebooting, it’s annoying.
I’ve actually had to change the option to download, but don’t install. Because, if I don’t, Microsoft will inevitably try to install an update while I’m doing something. And that update will come with the annoying “You need to restart your computer” prompt. If you’d waited till I wasn’t using the computer, you could have restarted all you want. But no, you had to be a jerk and try and interrupt what I’m doing.
I mean, I get that, once the update is installed, the computer might become unstable (since the old files it was using are gone.) It might be less secure than it was before the update, since whatever was upgraded had to be shut off. But that’s why you should wait until I’m not using the computer to do it. Instead, I have to remember to activate the updates whenever I leave the computer.
Dear Jebus, yes! This is what makes me mad enough to kick a puppy (okay, not really, but it’s still annoying as shit). LOOK, McAfee, or whoever you are, when I am done using my computer, I will restart it. Can I check my e-mail and dick around for a while in peace without you bothering me? “Not now” means I will tell you when I’m ready to reboot. Christ!
I’ve got another reason to hate these goddamned monthly apologies for shitty coding - I have a very slow connection and I buy bandwidth paying per meg (hooray for South African internet technology/monopolies), and it peeves me no end when I buy a gig of data and 5-10% is thrown away on fucking updates - especially the ones you have no control over. And in the case of M$, having ‘control’ gives little consolation when the alternative is to have an unpatched O/S. Fuck updates, fuck 'em in the bum. and fuck the shitty coders even harder (in the bum).
You know when this REALLY pisses a guy off? I’m IT manager of a small company with worldwide offices. Every single one of my Windows Server 2008 machines is bitching about a reboot for updates on a near-constant basis–and they won’t let you change ANYTHING important about the server configuration while an update is pending reboot.
Not used it myself - only just started playing around with Windows Server as I might end up constructing a (very) small business network for my dad. But yeah, I’d have thought the ability to push out updates only on planned reboots would be the clincher, if nothing else. Didn’t know about the configuration lockout either, handy info to have.
Incidentally, anyone still using XP can find instructions here to increase the timeout between the automatic reboot reminders.
Exactly. Fuck Microsoft’s updates. If you have good, legitimate anti-virus, anti-spyware (that you keep updated) AND you practice safe/smart web-surfing, you don’t really need to update Windows.
Now, I still do, but only the security patches. The rest of it is chaff, and some of it is spyware under the guise of Microsoft legitimacy. There’s enough prying into my world as it is, I don’t need my fucking computer spying on me too.
You want frothing rage? How about when at the climactic boss battle of a multi-hour group crawl in Guild Wars, when we’re just about to finish it all off and get our rare loot chest drop, and the Windows update dialog that had been resting on your desktop counting down in the background cheerfully decides to reboot your machine. death rage blood stab
I don’t ultimately mind updates, however it’s the ridiculousness of Windows not being able to do a damn thing without rebooting that annoys the piss out of me. (now a happy Ubuntu user)
