Re: How do you like your updates served to your Mother's System? in Security http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r15918334 en Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:12:31 EDT Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:12:31 EDT Re: How do you like your updates served to your Mother's System? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15923441 TOPDAWG : Use net-meeting it's free comes with windows and you can control the PC from where you are and update it yourself.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15923441 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:56:12 EDT Re: How do you like your updates served to your Mother's System? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15922098 brydry : Set my Mom's to Fully Automatic = check, download and install. She ran her PC for about 18 months with no updating, email and surfing in an administrator account - her machine was seriously hosed. Destructive recovery was the only cure. I have since given her a limited user account to use, auto windows updates, ato AV updates and I go clean her pc once a month (before she was 1500 miles away and couldn't do what need to be done). Gave her Firefox and Thunderbird to also keep the nasties to a minimum. If she hoses it again she might be learning SuSE ;)
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Well, the windows systems. The linux systems (which I've got mom almost exclusively using!) I update manually all around.
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said by uid1307457 See Profile :

my mother was born in the sixties and never owned a computer until 2004...enough said...
I was born in '51, so I guess I'm representing the mothers, here. My husband and I have owned computers since the '80s and I operated a word processing business when using Kermit and a modem was cutting edge.

I didn't come online until 2000 and cringe when I think about how ignorant I was and some of the things I did (like removing files with names that "didn't sound right," when I started having problems...probably because I'd already removed the unconfigured firewall that blocked too many places in the first & second computers I toasted :D ) prior to mid-2003 when I found a security forum and got good advice for the first time. BUT I learned, and I'll bet your mother could, too, if you encouraged her just a bit.
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The best solution to protect newbies who don't fully understand the technical aspects of what a hot patch does.

In most cases, Fully Automatic is a trouble free easy solution! :)
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Cudni]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15914928 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:47:11 EDT How do you like your updates served to your Mother's System? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15914898 Link Logger : Companion thread to the other question ( »How do you like your updates served - with this poll I hope ) where about 43% of folks like to manually update their own system, but does it make a difference if you are updating your computer or someone elses and if so why? So this question is how would you configure your Mother's (for example) computer or other remote client type system for updates?

Fully Automatic = check, download and install
Partially Automatic = check, download but wait for user to install
Check Automatic = check, but wait for user to download and install
Manually = user will check, download and install

[poll]How you like your updates delivered to a clients/remote system?,Fully Automatic Daily,Fully Automatic Weekly,Partially Automatic Daily,Partially Automatic Weekly,Check Automatic Daily,Check Automatic Weekly,Manually[/poll]

If you voted differently in this poll as compared to the other, why? If not, do you visit your client's remote systems that often or do you rely on them to manually apply their own updates?

Blake
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