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About three years ago I started doing all the windows patches as they came out. By the end of the rist year, I noticed that all my patched machines were running slower and slower. At that point I decided to stop patcheing certain machines. In fact I went back and restore these macine to their original outof the box state and then applied my user software. Since our network is behind a fireware and we use anti virus software plus spam blockers I was not too worried about getting infected on the un-patched machines. After a couple of months I decided to stop patching the remaining machines. So far in the last two years I have had only three virus infections which occurred in machines that were not virus protected. Granted I still have users that get popups, but that is due to their ways of surfing the net. Other users do not get popups. I think this patch business is over blown. I service over 500 computer.
Posted by: lenathome   Posted on: 09/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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No religion necessary, just reduce your risks, and your costs.  DonnieBoy | 09/07/06
Quiet Tuesday  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/06
Priorities  tic swayback | 09/07/06
Thank you, thank you  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/07/06
Don't forget though  TripleII | 09/07/06
Nah...  SecurityGeek_z | 09/07/06
True, but ...  Suicida| | 09/07/06
Another WGA?  IceTheNet@... | 09/07/06
'Critical' patch for Office coming... AFTER the fact.  Mr. Roboto | 09/07/06
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Dont get delusional  Suicida| | 09/07/06
Not delusional, maybe tad excited  TripleII | 09/07/06
Re: Dont get delusional  slim-01 | 09/08/06
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and the Odd thing is  slim-01 | 09/12/06
You need to try Ubuntu Linux  slim-01 | 09/12/06
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That's rosy thinking  HypnoToad | 09/09/06
With my experience I stand by my statement  slim-01 | 09/11/06
You are right...  cglrcng@... | 09/12/06
Ubuntu has thousands of apps  slim-01 | 09/12/06
Microsoft IS way better than it was  joe6pack_z | 09/07/06
Did the switch  pkrdk | 09/07/06
Microsoft the Products or Microsoft the Company?  bigpicture | 09/11/06
'Critical' patch for Office coming  itanalyst | 09/07/06
ROLF!!!  pkrdk | 09/07/06
He's trying to take Mike Cox's place  ebrke | 09/08/06
He's kidding  slim-01 | 09/08/06
Spin! Spin! Spin!  CypherOz | 09/11/06
My oh my what an excellent crowd!  jaszman | 09/08/06
That's why Windows Users should get Beta testing fees  slim-01 | 09/08/06
MS Windows patches  lenathome | 09/10/06
I service and support over 5000 machines  cglrcng@... | 09/12/06
You could have done it all by yourself  slim-01 | 09/12/06
Now if someone would just....  cglrcng@... | 09/12/06
Re: Now if someone would just...  slim-01 | 09/12/06
Job Security  Ole Man | 10/11/06

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