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I hope you've thought very carefully about your threat model when you say you don't autoupdate. For most people your advice is quite plainly wrong. Most people

• galaxyLogic 9y ago
  Right. Point is there are two types of bad downloads. You can download a version which is not malicious but is insecure. Then auto-updating it makes it more secure. Or you can auto-update to a version which is malicious. Then you are screwed. But your previous version you downloaded to start with might have contained the threat to start with. So just saying don't auto-update does not really protect you from malicious versions. Auto-updating does mean that you get updated security fixes making you less vulnerable. The original non-updated version can be malicious even with a vendor you think you should be able to trust because it is a popular product used by many others: https://www.piriform.com/news/blog/2017/9/18/security-notification-for-ccleaner-v5336162-and-ccleaner-cloud-v1073191-for-32-bit-windows-users https://www.piriform.com/news/blog/2017/9/18/security-notifi...