On 2/5/2014 6:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/5/2014 6:13 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:01:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

There were over 30 "important" updates to
download and install, a process that took about half an hour.

All I was doing was looking for a picture that was on it for a project I
am working on.

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You can fix that by changing the update settings:


Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update\Change settings\Check
for updates but let me choose when to install them



That's how I have it set up. When I fired it up a notification came up
telling me there were 30+ "important" Windows updates and asked me what
I wanted to do with them. Since I hadn't used it for almost 4 months I
installed them all.

Oh ... then after that was done, Java wanted to update also.
Then the Adobe Viewer wanted to update.
Then the AVG anti-virus wanted to update.

Just took a little time to update and install them all, that's all.



You guys seem to forget, PC's are under much more constant attack than
Mac, as one friend put it, "it's based on market share, when it comes to
writing viruses and Mac, who cares?" ... My Win 7 updates at night
when it backs up, I never see it...

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:12:10 -0500, KC wrote:

You guys seem to forget, PC's are under much more constant attack than
Mac, as one friend put it, "it's based on market share, when it comes to
writing viruses and Mac, who cares?" ... My Win 7 updates at night
when it backs up, I never see it...

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There was an interesting story on the news the other night about
someone who took a brand new Mac to the site of the winter Olympics.
Within an hour it became infected with a virus. The Russian hackers
have set up in full force.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:12:10 -0500, KC wrote:

You guys seem to forget, PC's are under much more constant attack than
Mac, as one friend put it, "it's based on market share, when it comes to
writing viruses and Mac, who cares?" ... My Win 7 updates at night
when it backs up, I never see it...

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There was an interesting story on the news the other night about
someone who took a brand new Mac to the site of the winter Olympics.
Within an hour it became infected with a virus. The Russian hackers
have set up in full force.

The paper here had an article that everything was hacked within a couple
minutes of being used. I think CBS had a couple PC's and phones just for
the testing of security and both were attacked for info within minutes of
going online. We need a counter attack program. Follows the links to the
attacking system and loots all values from the heir system.