nanarchy said:
yep and that very behaviour is what makes malware spread so easily. malware writers rely on people like yourself that are slow at patching, they don't need to discover new vulnerabilities, they just reverse engineer the patch and they have a way to compromise a large volume of users that thinks they know better and can wait for a few days or a few weeks or what usually happens they never get aorund to doing it at all until something happens. You are far more likely to have issues from not patching than patching. |
That may be true, but the comparison with anti-vaxxers is just plain nonsense. Unlike humans, computers that have already been patched with security updates don't risk still being susceptible to the exploit it patched. So people who choose to take the risk only risk their own system.
What's more, vaccines go through extensive clinical trials for *years* before the public are expected to get vaccinated, in a process that is highly regulated by governments. On the other hand, MS can push out a patch within hours of learning of a problem, and it's entirely possible for that patch to have unintended consequences for large numbers of people. It's for that reason that many people will wait before updating, so that if there are issues, they can learn of them beforehand.
