Nancymca
Security Goddess, retired.
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Re: How do you like your updates served - with this poll I hope
Fully Automatic daily for trusted software, of course. Why even think about it, that's why I have the software in the first place. I have better things to do than muck around with my system picking out malware.
One exception: OS updates. There is too much of a history of bad and troublesome updates to let those install automatically. I'd rather see how they go before I install them. "...Asps...very dangerous....you go first" 
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Mele20
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Hilo, HI
| Nancy, I believe Link Logger was excluding security applications like AV from this poll/discussion. They fall into a special category and I think even those of us who want full control over any other application/OS updating/upgrading probably have our AV, etc. set to update automatically. I was speaking about all other applications in my remarks.
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Nancymca
Security Goddess, retired.
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Voorheesville, NY
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| Hello,
I wasn't talking about an AV. I was talking about antimalware software. I only use an AV on-demand.
I handle software *upgrades* manually, but I don't think that's what the poll is about, as they are typically infrequent, with the exception possibly being Firefox/Thunderbird. (for Firefox/Thunderbird users of course)
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Mele20
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Hilo, HI
| said by Nancymca  :Hello, I wasn't talking about an AV. I was talking about antimalware software. I only use an AV on-demand. I handle software *upgrades* manually, but I don't think that's what the poll is about, as they are typically infrequent, with the exception possibly being Firefox/Thunderbird. (for Firefox/Thunderbird users of course) If you read the thread that this grew from you would understand that Link Logger started it partly because of concern regarding the forced updating of WMP since ver 7.
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I did say security applications LIKE AV. I wanted to say antitrojans, antivirus and antispyware applications but I knew it is considered old-fashioned and inaccurate to refer to AT now and I was having a "senior moment" and couldn't think of the word "antimalware". 
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SpannerITWks
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| I know that some AV's have been detecting a lot more than just Viruses for a while, but they are still referred to by the Vendors themselves in the main as AV.
The same goes for AS/ etc etc. So even though for eg, a very good AT will detect/block etc a lot more than just Trojans, if EVERY Anti was just generically called Antimalware, then it might be pretty confusing for a lot of people out there. And all Antimalware products would NOT be equal, as individual Anti this n that are NOT now, or have ever been.
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jaykaykay
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The only thing I allow to update automatically on my system is BOC. All the rest are done manually (or at the very least check automatically). I have been a real skeptic about downloads and allowing automatically since getting a computer. Even MS screws up the computer at times. I want to know what's been done so that I know what to go after to fix it.
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