2 hours later all the PC's/Servers updated and all appear to be working as they were before the update

what with anti virus updates anti spyware updates (4 varieties) registry cleaners defrag motherboard driver updates sound card updates graphics card updates the constant 35 meg iTiunes updates the annoying acrobat updates Ghost backups to keep a copy of everything updated up to date.

Its a wonder I find the time to earn a living to keep the hardware up to date

OK I have more PC's than your average bear boo-boo but that's 2 hours per month which is more than a 1/4 of 1% of your life given over to this insanity - just Bill's not that other "junk" above.

The little mac looks like a better bet every month (Intel Core Duo)

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

In Italy, patch Tuesday is actually Wednesday, as the translations are always a tad behind. Took the plunge....allowed apply all but the malware removal tool, which actually is responsible for many a post update problem. I'm happy with 3rd party cleaners (freeware) to keep MSFT honest.

Tweaked that irritating shield with help of some tip on TechRepublic to not nag me until I think the time is rife to boot, tonight.....it works, just sitting in the systray

all they offered me last tuesday was a single "critical" patch for Windows Genuine.

as for microsoft fixing FireFox, i believe they do. i have had to delete & re-up firefox a couple times right after patch day to get it normal. with 17% of market share someone ought to make microsoft update available on other browsers besides IE too.

DagoRath ! lol



Yo Dudes,...
The World IS a Diaper.
They are the Poo;, and we are the Clth.
They will be assimilated! Yuk!
But not in our lifetimes if the Dark side is left to the Washing....

CruchinglyYours
CT

The Genuine Article Check: Another WGA failure

Most interesting this round was that WAU offered in fact only 2 updates (in italian and 24 hours early as reported in prior post). The handblocked WGA, for which there is an uninstall utility btw, and one critical fix. Then, last night hit the IEtab option in Firefox to get to the official page as the press had reported 10 fixes, and all of a sudden 8 more critical offerings were listed......don't trust WAU to give u the complete unadulterated collection.....or maybe they were not finished translating first time around.....what a bunch of .... [expletives not in the merken listing]

The message here: Had i not hand run it, i would have had potentially 8 holes lumbering for another month......glad i use a NoScripted, Adblocked, Popupsuppressing,Antiphishing,AntiSpoof,RIP extended Mozilla product.

signed
Lucky Man