Re: [PcTech] Re:choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have auto updates set to tell me when the updates are available, and I run
them when I am ready.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:53 PM
Subject: RE: [PcTech] Re:choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc


> >From: JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >IMHO, very very very bad idea. Updates have a bad habit of disabling
thing
> >right when you don't want them to.
>
> Then again, not installing them has a bad habit of leaving open patched
> security holes. If people had applied patches when MS released them
CodeRed
> and Nimda would have been a minor annoyance.