This is very true. I just had a customers XP PC in that I ran a buch of updates for and it added a good 40 seconds to the boot time.
...sure, on first boot up after patching it will be slower, but after prefetch has had time to run, then what?
This is very true. I just had a customers XP PC in that I ran a buch of updates for and it added a good 40 seconds to the boot time.
...sure, on first boot up after patching it will be slower, but after prefetch has had time to run, then what?
Most of all infections/malware come through holes in Internet Explorer. Most of the Microsoft updates do not deal with the holes in IE.
I also mean something the user elected to install like when they get a popup message "Yyou needz this videos codex to view xyz" and they install it.
I actually disabled prefetch on a few of them and it doesn't help.
Umm..yeah, it wouldn't. Doing without prefetch will destroy performance. Better to let prefetch finish up, then do a defrag to build on the prefetch results.
Have you done an XPerf on it to see what's actually going on in the machine?
I am not sure you understand what prefetch does.
You know whats wrong with java really? the updates. No where is there a message or anything saying UNINSTALL OLDER VERSIONS FIRST BEFORE INSTALLING UPDATE.I don't think you've researched that statement very carefully. Take a careful look at what the bad guys attack with their exploit packs, and take a look at Microsoft's updating history with regards to all supported versions of IE.
Sample:
And why do they go after Java like crazy...? For one, it's common to have out-of-date Java on consumer systems. One researcher puts it at about 35% of the popluation browsing with a vulnerable JRE installed. And a successful Java exploit bypasses a bunch of browser protections entirely... this might be a repost, sorry if it is, but Dino Dai Zovi illustrates it really well:
Dunno about anyone else, but I can live without Java.
It's amazing that such an obvious tactic keeps working, but evidently it does. I used to hunt those things down, harvest and submit them to the antivirus vendors for a hobby. There were plenty to go around IE9's reputation-based version of SmartScreen is aimed at cueing people with The Red Shield Of Danger in those situations, and according to Microsoft's research it does get the users to stop and think, but in the end there's no fixing stupid.
Okay well this is some scary stuff indeed. but the truth is I just don't have anything they'd want. I don't play WoW, or have any top secret information on here.. and everything is cloned on a hard drive stored away safely. The mods I have are free, and I'd gladly upload them into a compilation if anyone wanted them that badly.. and that leaves a bunch of pictures of my dogs and family members.
I use a debit card for online purchases, and when I make purchases I deposit the same amount of cash at the bank that I'm spending right before.. so its not like I don't take any precautions here.
I can also absolutely assure you nobody is keyloging me.. they'd see a bunch of forum posts that are already made public and a random combo of "WASD" over and over again.