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Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2)
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:20:22 +0800
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:- (1) updates are too big to be diownloaded by modem , which fail every 20 - 40 minutes (which is common in many countries); - (2) if you connect to Internet for update, you are infected by virus much faster than you install update. I saw it. Home user install Win2K, then connect to internet to get update... and catch virus.
.. I almost wonder if AOL would consider shipping windows updates on their mail-out CDs just as a "friendly" thing to do, unencumbered by AOLness. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <adrian () creative net au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
Current thread:
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT), (continued)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Scott Weeks (Apr 19)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Gregh (Apr 19)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Scott Weeks (Apr 19)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) John Neiberger (Apr 19)
- RE: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Drew Weaver (Apr 19)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Jeff Shultz, WIllamette Valley Internet (Apr 19)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Dan Hollis (Apr 19)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) John Osmon (Apr 19)
- Responsibility: user or OS? (Re: Microsoft XP SP2) E.B. Dreger (Apr 19)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Alexei Roudnev (Apr 19)
- Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) Sean Donelan (Apr 19)
- Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) Adrian Chadd (Apr 19)
- Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) Alexei Roudnev (Apr 19)
- Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) James Edwards (Apr 20)
- Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) Sean Donelan (Apr 20)
- Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) Alexei Roudnev (Apr 21)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Jeff Shultz, WIllamette Valley Internet (Apr 19)
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- Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) Alexei Roudnev (Apr 21)
- Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2) Dan Hollis (Apr 20)
- Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT) Jeff Shultz, WIllamette Valley Internet (Apr 19)