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>What is a bigger threat to your machine's security than not being able to use it at all? What kind of a threat is that? Is your computer worth more than the
by ryanl0l 10y ago
>What is a bigger threat to your machine's security than not being able to use it at all?
What kind of a threat is that?
Is your computer worth more than the contents of your bank account?
- Silhouette 10y agoAnything that really does compromise my bank account has got through a lot more than Windows' security, and almost certainly entered my system through a vulnerability that Windows updates wouldn't have fixed anyway. Also, it's not one computer I'm worried about so much as the cost per day of downtime for everyone in my company if a Windows update were to break all our general use PCs.
- ryanl0l 10y agoPerhaps you should be running the LTS version then?
- Silhouette 10y agoWhat LTS version? If you mean LTSB for Windows 10, that's only available with Enterprise, which means it's not an option for the kind of power users or small businesses who would have used Pro with 7 or 8.x. In any case, the idea that you should have to jump through all the hoops involved in running Windows Enterprise just to maintain a reasonable degree of control over your own computers is patently absurd, and like many others, I and my businesses will treat it with the contempt it deserves.
- ryanlol 10y agoIf you're worried about the cost per day of downtime, you should certainly consider investing in Enterprise. >In any case, the idea that you should have to jump through all the hoops involved in running Windows Enterprise just to maintain a reasonable degree of control over your own computers is patently absurd, and like many others, I and my businesses will treat it with the contempt it deserves. Well, I certainly hope you've got a very competent security team to assess and control the risks caused by avoiding updates.
- Silhouette 10y agoSecurity team? We don't even have an IT guy. That's what small business is like. Everyone pitches in, and to some extent, everyone has to know a bit about everything. In this case, that includes keeping up with the latest updates when they come out, looking up each KBnnnnnnn marked as a security patch, and checking whether it looks good before deciding whether we should install it. It's not rocket science, it's just more difficult than it ought to be since Microsoft stopped putting any helpful information directly in Windows Update. It's still far less hassle than either jumping through Enterprise hoops or experiencing downtime because a Windows Update broke something important and we couldn't block it.
- ryanl0l 10y agoAh, I'm sorry. For some reason I was under the impression that you were ignoring updates altogether. Installing specific KBs works fine until Microsoft stealth patches something, which isn't exactly unheard of.