SvennoJ said:
nanarchy said:
Auto updates in win 7 can be scheduled for whatever time you like, it doesn't have to happen while you are working. Win7 also only updates once a month not 3 or 4 times a week. (patch tuesday), only time you get extra is ciritical out of band patches which happen once every few months.
Part of my job is around security and patch management for large organisations. I am in a constant battle with people that have the same dated view on patching. I usually have to dig through their outages reports over the last few years to demonstrate how wrong their views on patching is. It constantly amazes me the amount of IT people that are out of touch with modern practises. Litterally yesterday I had to drag out the outage reports for an issue that has plagued a company for 5 years, affecting thousands of people and all because there IT people advised them it is safer not to update even though their was a known patch for their issue costing hours of downtime for thousands of people every month.
Another large research place I was at last week was in an absolute mess, they could not actually apply the latest security fixes as their systems were so out of date that it wasn't possible to apply it without applying 100's of patches first. It cost them hugely in overtime and downtime. Another one 2 weeks ago with an organisation that hadn't been updating their SAN firmware or switch firmware and we found the cause of their outages for the last 12 months was a bug that was fixed 3 years ago.
Nearly all of the biggest worms and viri on the internet have relied on peole not patching as they exploit old vulnerabilities.
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I don't doubt your horror stories and for companies it makes perfect sense to auto update at night.
Yet consider my user experience. I don't leave my desktop on, so scheduling auto updates is of no use. When I start my desktop after a week or 2 to do something, a pack of hungry wolves immediately attack my internet connection, Windows updates, adobe reader, adobe flash, iTunes, Firefox, Java, Virus scanner, etc. Trying to open a folder through all that assault on my hdd is nearly impossible. So screw auto updates.
Again a simple reminder at shut down, a simple would you like to update now, would be perfect. And then it needs to do it all the way, not the next time I start it up to begin with finishing installing updates.
I guess I'll restart now, windows update is threatening me again "Restart your PC, your PC will automatically restart in 1 day if you don't restart now" (That's on my always on laptop where I expect everything that's open to stay open over night) I finished my heavy burgers and am going to jump in the pool now ;) It's still 31c out, pool is 29c, I love summer.
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