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How do you like your updates served to your Mother's System?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? |
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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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CudniLa Merma - Vigilado MVM join:2003-12-20 Someshire |
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2006-Apr-17 2:47 pm
Voted manual update because i will always review and only apply those patches or updates that apply to this or that particular system
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NancymcaSecurity Goddess, retired. Premium Member join:2001-09-30 Voorheesville, NY |
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Mom brings her laptop over when visiting so we can keep everything aside from her anti-malware (automatically updates daily) up to date. |
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my mother was born in the sixties and never owned a computer until 2004...enough said... |
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Voted "fully automatic weekly." The more automated the better. I only get to see my parents and their computer about once a year, so keeping them up-to-date personally is not so easy. We do manage to do a fair share of tech support over the phone |
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MapleLeaf Premium Member join:2001-09-04 Burnaby, BC |
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Fully Automatic Daily - I insisted that my parents automate KAV and WU. They live out of my reach. I know them long enough (41 years) to not trust them in things like checking for OS patches updating databases. I update their KAV subscription for them myself - same date as mine, easy to remember. If you only could imagine how much it would cost me to do troubleshooting over the phone between Vancouver and St.-Petersburg... |
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grobinetteSoutheast of disorder MVM, join:2001-01-27 22152-1106 |
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Full automatic weekly for the OS. Considering her internet habits, that would work. The higher risk would be that her friends send along an infected email and the AV should handle that. |
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norwegian Premium Member join:2005-02-15 Outback |
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Fully automated for any one's computer that comes here. Simply because they don't care either way, as long as it works for them. They prefer to put up with it updating, even over a dialup acct. Somewhere in it all, it makes them think all is working right if it does. So if it's updated regularly, i don't get it back as quickly |
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EGeezer Premium Member join:2002-08-04 Midwest |
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For mother-in-law, check automatic daily on OS, full auto on AV . She's on dialup and will download/install OS updates once she's done her email and internet browsing. |
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Dustyn Premium Member join:2003-02-26 Ontario, CAN ·Carry Telecom ·TekSavvy Cable Asus GT-AX11000 Technicolor TC4400
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Fully Automatic!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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DownTheShorePray for Ukraine Premium Member join:2003-12-02 Beautiful NJ |
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I set up my stepdad's compututer to fully automatic updating. He has no interest at all in the mechanics of the computer, so I just set things up to occur as automatically as possible to keep him protected. Every now and then I run full sweeps of his system, but he doesn't tend to go places online where nasties tend to abound anyway. |
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TOPDAWG Premium Member join:2005-04-27 Calgary, AB |
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I just get my mom to start net-meeting and I do that remote control thing and update the PC. I do it like once a month. |
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I voted "full auto daily" even though Mom will never ever have a computer in her home. This is the same woman who couldn't use the camera we gave her one year for Christmas, because it needed a plus battery and a minus battery but we had only included two plus batteries. I thought Grandma was gonna stroke out she was laughing so hard. |
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onDvineGrown up Flower Child Premium Member join:2005-01-29 So. CA, USA |
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said by uid1307457: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 ) 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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HelGoddess Of My Own Little Universe Premium Member join:2002-04-11 Washington, DC |
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Manually, cos too often automatic updates break things, and then mom calls me panicking. So every week or two I head over and manually update. On my system tho, I've got it set to download and then wait for me to install. Well, the windows systems. The linux systems (which I've got mom almost exclusively using!) I update manually all around. |
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Sweet WitchBe the flame, not the moth. MVM join:2003-07-15 Gallifrey |
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I have my mother's set identical to mine - AVG auto updates daily and MS checks weekly. If there's an important update, I simply email her with the link and she updates when she gets the email. She also knows that when she sees the little shield there's an update waiting for her and to install it when she's done with her email. |
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brydry...it's meat-cake join:2004-12-05 Clearwater, FL |
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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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TOPDAWG Premium Member join:2005-04-27 Calgary, AB |
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2006-Apr-18 6:56 pm
Use net-meeting it's free comes with windows and you can control the PC from where you are and update it yourself. |
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