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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

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