IE patches available

[chumbawumba]

A patch is now available for the the highly publicised vulnerability that exist in all flavours of IE.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx

Refer to the table  to download the relevant patch for your OS and browser version.

Windows update should pull this fix in automatically if you have it set to do so...

[jamesedmunds]

Windows update should pull this fix in automatically if you have it set to do so...

Is there any reason to not have Windows pull updates automatically? This is not a joke question, I am just wondering what the argument might be against it.

Curious,

James

[ak732]

Is there any reason to not have Windows pull updates automatically? This is not a joke question, I am just wondering what the argument might be against it.

I guess it comes down to how much you trust MSFT to differentiate between a critical update and a maybe nice-to-have update.  I have Windows Update set up to notify me when something needs updating.  I can then check out what it thinks I need updated and can optionally allow it or ignore it.  Now and then, they have stuff listed as critical that I don't find either critical or desirable (admittedly, this happens infrequenty - most of the I just click Ok and let the download and update proceed).

[chumbawumba]

Like you I have wau set to notify me when patches are available rather than install them automatically.

As a home/small business user the patching can be done efficiently this way.  A large corporation might want to test these patches before releasing them en-masse.

[KevinS]

Is there any reason to not have Windows pull updates automatically? This is not a joke question, I am just wondering what the argument might be against it.

I dont trust MS as far as I can throw them. The only reason I have Windows is for video games. Even then, if it can run on Linux or Mac (well not Mac anymore... Thanks Steven  ), I boot into my Linux partition to play them.

Also, I dont need Windows interjecting its opinion on what I need and dont need more than it already does.

[italait]

..and possibly because somethings just work better work better with the Microsoft platforms?

...I have an Intel MAC (2.26ghz I beleive) running 10.5.6 (not 10.6 yet  ) and I have to say that my PC (Q6600, XP/7/Vista/Fedora quad boot) runs Photoshop and all adobe products 10x better than the Mac...

[pseudo]

Is there any reason to not have Windows pull updates automatically? This is not a joke question, I am just wondering what the argument might be against it.

Curious,

James

I'm also in the 'notify only' group. If you let Windows update automatically it will do mean and nasty things like reboot your pc in the middle of the night after updating, and you'll lose any work you left open and forgot to save.

And I think Windows update activates some kind of sensor in your laptop that can trigger the largest update files to download at the most inopportune time. Airports, especially, are update magnets. I've even gone so far as to manually check Windows update before I'm going to travel only to find 2 hours later that some huge update has magically appeared now that I'm in the terminal and only have a few minutes available.