Rumor has it that Longhorn will enforce security patching.
Up until now I frowned upon any body forcing me to anything until I test it thoroughly.
However, this weekend I just spent the most part of Saturday and Sunday patching and scanning a friend of a friend?s home system.
I, as an IT pro, keep up with security patches and such, but looking at an end users home system, gave me a view from the M$ side.
The system was a zombie nightmare (backdoors galore, a disabled firewall which I could not re-enable, and even after I cleaned the system and loaded Norton, the updates would not load).
No virus scanner, no patching, and kids downloading whatever looks cool.
I’m sure this system is not an exception to the rule.
Now, I?m not so sure that forced updates for a home user system, is not such a bad idea.
