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Downloading Internet Explorer 8... Done.
Checking your computer for malicious software...
Detected Micro$oft Windoze!
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Downloading Internet Explorer 8...
Why?
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Downloading Internet Explorer 8...
>
> Why?
I selected "Install all critical updates for Windows". Apparently IE8 is
a "critical security update" that has to be installed immediately.
<insert comment about IE's legendary security here>
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Downloading Internet Explorer 8...
> >
> > Why?
> I selected "Install all critical updates for Windows". Apparently IE8 is
> a "critical security update" that has to be installed immediately.
In most linux distros (at least OpenSUSE) you get to choose if you want
to install an update or not. (Usually there's no reason not to, though.)
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- Warp
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Invisible wrote:
> Downloading Internet Explorer 8... Done.
>
> Checking your computer for malicious software...
> Detected Micro$oft Windoze!
ROTFLMAO
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Invisible wrote:
> I selected "Install all critical updates for Windows". Apparently IE8 is
> a "critical security update" that has to be installed immediately.
>
> <insert comment about IE's legendary security here>
Is IE 8 less secure than 7? From what I've read, it's more. Hence a
critical security update. IE users need every bit they can get, see?
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Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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>> I selected "Install all critical updates for Windows". Apparently IE8
>> is a "critical security update" that has to be installed immediately.
>>
>> <insert comment about IE's legendary security here>
>
> Is IE 8 less secure than 7?
It's news to me that there *is* an IE 8 already. Last I heard, 7 had
just come out. But anyway, on past form, I would suggest that IE 8
corrects a huge raft of problems with IE 6 and IE 7, while at the same
time introducing a whole new range of problems of its own.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when your software isn't designed to
be secure in the first place, and you try to hack that in afterwards
while still retaining backwards compatibility.
> From what I've read, it's more. Hence a
> critical security update. IE users need every bit they can get, see?
LOL! Ain't that the truth...
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Warp wrote:
> In most linux distros (at least OpenSUSE) you get to choose if you want
> to install an update or not. (Usually there's no reason not to, though.)
You do in Windows too. By default it installs what MS thinks is critical and
leaves the checkboxes turned off on the optional stuff. Sometimes what MS
thinks is critical isn't quite so critical, granted.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> In most linux distros (at least OpenSUSE) you get to choose if you want
>> to install an update or not. (Usually there's no reason not to, though.)
>
> You do in Windows too. By default it installs what MS thinks is critical
> and leaves the checkboxes turned off on the optional stuff. Sometimes
> what MS thinks is critical isn't quite so critical, granted.
"Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool" is a critical update...?
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> In most linux distros (at least OpenSUSE) you get to choose if you
>>> want
>>> to install an update or not. (Usually there's no reason not to, though.)
>>
>> You do in Windows too. By default it installs what MS thinks is critical
>> and leaves the checkboxes turned off on the optional stuff. Sometimes
>> what MS thinks is critical isn't quite so critical, granted.
>
> "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool" is a critical update...?
"Genuine advantage" is a huge misnomer. It's "Pirated Disadvantage"
actually. If your computer is genuine, it doesn't give you any advantage.
If it's pirated, it cripples the hell out of it.
And yes, Microsoft losing money is critical.
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