I agree. Constant internet access and the assumption that other people should be able to push new code to your machine and have it run without you even being aw

I agree. Constant internet access and the assumption that other people should be able to push new code to your machine and have it run without you even being aware of it has killed all hope of resiliency. I miss the days when any application that dared to phone home even just to check for updates was considered spyware. Today there is are huge numbers of people who have access to install and run whatever new code they want on our systems whenever they feel like it. If it's not the AV software, it's the browser, or the video card, or the mouse driver, or windows itself. It's totally unmanageable.