@Cerberus That is not the point. The point is that a widely installed program had a known flaw and a patch available, but people like you who say "it's too inconvenient" get infected.
I feel that the primary source of malware is the gates, and I choose to fortify those well. Once it's in, then it can do what it wants—but nothing ever does get in.
@Cerberus You're just lucky that this was a relatively unsophisticated attack, and that they didn't, eg, first compromise the newspaper website through sql injection so that a trusted script was delivering the attack instead of an untrusted one. It happens all the time.
@MattЭллен I am pretty sure somewhere in Oracle's binary is a string of bits that converted to MIDI plays a note from a copyrighted song. I'm not afraid.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 If I have been lucky for 10 years without anti-virus software installed and without regular updates, then that's fine. Call it what you will, I like it.
You just refuse to see the utility in having up-to-date software, no matter how many times it's shown that people with out-of-date software get infected.
But, @ChairOTP, as Mr Shiny says, it may be good for you to keep updating Windows, depending on how you use your computer.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 By the way, my father does all the common things, like updating stuff and running a live anti-virus program, and yet he still gets viruses.
@Cerberus I do update it, but it's annoying sometimes, when it's really late and I have to go to bed, and it says "don't turn off your computer..." or whatever it says.
I do also install random software, but I check out its background first, and I always run at least a hask check of everything through Virus Total, with an automated hash-checker/uploader.
@ChairOTP If that bothers you, just set it to download updates but not install, then install them the next day when you turn on the machine. or when it's convenient, but at least sometime.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Indeed not, but if my father is still exposed to, let's say, 10 percentage points through his own stupidity, then all the annoyance incurred by reducing it by another .5 p.p. may not be worth it. It's hard to say, and it may depend on the user.
@Robusto Poor you! But on a work computer, I can understand.
@Cerberus Not at all part of the "your software is known to be vulnerable to automated attacks" zeitgeist. There is measurable benefit to having up-to-date software. There is no measurable benefit to making airport users take off their shoes.
Semiannual reboots are an execrable failure of your power grid. Anything more frequent is a sign that someone needs to consider an assisted-living situation, since life is clearly too hard for them on their own.
@Cerberus But they are totally different! updating your software costs nothing and protects you from real risks. Airport security costs millions and doesn't protect you from anything. How is that at all comparable?
@Cerberus You're not supposed to replace notepad.exe or system drivers. 99.999% of users never do that. Those updates would repair their broken computers in those cases.
@Cerberus It doesn't. That is to say, x-raying packages and metal detectors do deter people to some degree. But forcing people to take off shoes, or to submit to invasive pat-downs or nude-body scans does nothing to help security.
@Cerberus does cost/benefit ratio mean anything to you? Please don't try to argue that nude body scans are beneficial on the basis of a mentally-disabled terrorist will no longer be able to get a non-functional home-made bomb on the plane.
If you describe the phrase you are looking for in English, and then ask for a shorter/idiomatic way to say that, that's a phrase-request. After you do that, you can still mention the exact equivalent in another language, but the key is that the question must still work with that bit removed.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Let's just agree to disagree. You encourage inexperienced users to enable all updates and anti-virus software, and I'm fine with that.
Top 10 common Norwegian male names: 1. Jonas <-- Same in Swedish 2. Mathias (Matias) <-- Same in Swedish, there are variants 3. Alexander (Aleksander) <-- Same in Swedish 4. Andreas <-- Same in Swedish 5. Elias <-- Same in Swedish 6. Kristian <-- Same in Swedish 7. Sebastian <-- Same in Swedish 8. Markus (Marcus) 9. Sander <-- Never heard of a Swede named that 10. Tobias <-- Same in Swedish
On funny aside about Sweden and names, there is this feminist party that has ~3% of the votes that want to make all names gender neutral. So that you can name a girl Harry for example
@MattЭллен There was a case here where the parents were suing a bakery for refusing to put "Happy Birthday, Adolf" on the kid's birthday cake or something.
"The relevant bit is that there should be no legistlation forbidding him. He is the father. Not the lawmaker." It should not be entirely up to him, what about the child?
@RegDwighт That is a different thing imo, and I fully agree with you on this one. Still feel it is ok with regulation of what name you give someone else
@tchrist so that one time, I met one Aaron Marshall, who was with Microsoft, and he gave me his email, and it was [email protected]. Little did he know that "am Arsch" is German for "my ass".
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