HOW. MANY. TIMES.
THAT'S NOT THE OPTION I WANT.
I'm always multi-tasking and trying to be as productive as possible. Your method forces me to wait while the updates install.
I have a good reason to have updates installed automatically. If one requires a reboot and I'm finished with what I was working on, the reboot should go quickly and I can get back to work.
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having an unpatched computer whose user keeps delaying reboots and possibly compromising the networks security is worse.
having an unpatched computer whose user keeps delaying reboots and possibly compromising the networks security is worse.
Should be obvious I'm talking about my own home desktop computer.Where do you work? Can I get your managers email? Because I should forward this to them. You should be fired if this is "WHAT YOU DO!"
I saw that. Why are you saying that I don't get it? It wasn't actually anything new to me...just beside the point that the default behavior for automatic updates has changed and you now have to override it. If it didn't happen to you, you probably wouldn't know until it DOES happen to you.Any competent IT person would know how to have updates downloaded AND installed WITHOUT automatically rebooting a machine AND I've even outlined it clearly in this thread for you AND YOU STILL CAN'T GET IT!
OOoooohhhh you haven't run a fucking antivirus since 95A. Big fat fucking deal, nobody gives a shit. I don't care to run shitty antivirus crap either. I do run MSSE because I have to deal with files which are not under my control all the time. I didn't run an AV until this was the case. I KNOW that I know what I'm fucking doing, and I can have auto updates installed WITHOUT REBOOTING because I know more than you and you can't even USE A FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE to FIND RELEVANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SHIT.
You've got to be the MOST USELESS IT person ever in the history of useless IT people. You're the type of person who gives REAL IT EXPERTS a bad name because you think you're some expert because you can push a fucking power button.
So no, THANK YOU MICROSOFT for making this turd look like a fool.
No, it doesn't. You can continue working and when the updates are done, a window pops up and allows you to reboot now or at a later time. I do this all the time.
Here is a revolutionary idea -- you can schedule them to install and reboot late at night!
having an unpatched computer whose user keeps delaying reboots and possibly compromising the networks security is worse.
A few years back, the designed behavior was acceptable...then they changed it. I don't know why, but it had to happen a few times before I realized what was going on, and that's not acceptable.
THERE WAS NO ONE BEHIND THE KEYBOARD NOR AT THE COMPUTER.
That's actually my point.
This is another example of someone who thinks you can keep declining it to avoid an automatic restart.
YOU CAN'T. (*without a registry / group policy tweak)
Clearly none of your users are elitists who don't even need to run AV software.
You most certainly CAN if you're on Vista or above. I've done multiple "Wait 4 hours" selections before. No problem.
Frankly, any environment where a single user's outdated machine can compromise the network is an IT Security professional not doing his or her job. I'd say that's some serious hardware firewall configuration failure.
If your counter argument to this are users taking their machines home, I have worked in DoD environments to small 15 man offices and an individual antivirus capable of detecting malware/spyware/viruses is an absolute must-have, even for machines sitting behind a corporate firewall 100% of the time.
P.S. MSSE works great as a stand-alone for any Win7 machine. I've stopped buying corporate antivirus solutions completely as there is absolutely no need to do so when Microsoft provides a superior integrated software for free.
You most certainly CAN if you're on Vista or above. I've done multiple "Wait 4 hours" selections before. No problem.
My point is, I did NOT. I gave it permission to install the updates; NOT restart. Microsoft used to respect this preference. They do not anymore.
Apparently, a PSA is necessary because at least one person in this thread insists that you can postpone the restart forever. Reality: You can't.
yeah, that's why i said possibly. the problem with av is they only detect known virus's, they don't mitigate the underlying vulnerability that caused the computer to become compromised in the first place as security updates do.