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RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
From: "Terry Baranski" <tbaranski () mail com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:55:46 -0400
How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's Windows computers?Sounds good to me. The potential for these users to be less-than-educated enough about the existance of this "feature" means that the potential for this to increase the overall network security is a good thing. Hopefully they will enable automatic checking and downloading of critical software updates as well.
The "without notice" part is perhaps somewhat unsettling. I can appreciate that attempting to explain this type of change to the AOL user base would be challenging, but I'd submit that third-party software making OS changes like this without the user's knowledge could be "thin ice" territory. Where is the line drawn once this path is chosen? -Terry
Current thread:
- AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Sean Donelan (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Jared Mauch (Oct 23)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Terry Baranski (Oct 23)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Brian Wallingford (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Chris Brenton (Oct 24)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Brian Bruns (Oct 24)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Terry Baranski (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Michael Loftis (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings chuck goolsbee (Oct 23)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Brian Knoblauch (Oct 24)
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- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Fred Baker (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Sean Donelan (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Henry Linneweh (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Fred Baker (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Jared Mauch (Oct 23)