Re: microsoft updates

[Alexander Klimov <alserkli () inbox ru>]

I suspect that the only reasonable way to install Windows that needs
to be connected to Internet is to make an install disk with all
updates (on another computer). My personal experience was that if you
install Windows and connect to Internet, your computer gets infected
*before* you have time to download anything (it was with Windows 2000,
I hope the situation has changed, but I would not bet on it).

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Vince Hall wrote:
> News flash, just about every cracked or pirated copy of
> software on the net comes with its own unknown infection!

You are absolutely right: this is a "news flash".

  The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever
  happens." It's when something isn't in the news, when it's so
  common that it's no longer news -- car crashes, domestic
  violence -- that you should start worrying.

> From what I have seen most botnets are from the pirated copies or
> cracks themselves, not from the lack of updates.

I think the main reason of botnets is human gullibility, after all
pirated or not, software is the same and has the same bugs.

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Regards,
ASK