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[mtlchick.livejournal.com]

No firewall, no Windows updates, no anti-virus, no anti-spyware = No shit your computer doesn't work.
*insert sound of tech dying in shock that it's worked this long*

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[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

I had one of those today, connecting at 50.4ish (dialup) and complaining that Web pages were taking forever to load.

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

I had tons of those calls tonight!!! YEESH!!!!

Pwn3d in 60 seconds.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

An unprotected Windows XP machine was breached within four minutes, and became a zombie in less than ten hours... (http://www.flexbeta.net/main/comments.php?catid=11&id=10621)

No $#!^, sherlock.

Re: Pwn3d in 60 seconds.

[buckaction.livejournal.com]

and yet when it was first introduced, power user groups around the world bellowed about how Automatic updates is a privacy risk.

General users are too fucking ignorant to update their machines on their own, letting it do it itself is only a good thing..and even then, a vast majority of the machines i get into my shop are NOT patched up.

Hell, i get quite a few that don't even have SP2 installed... then they wonder where all the spyware and viruses came from..shock..gasp.

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

To be fair to non computer litterate users, this is the first point at which computers have been vulnerable. When I started off as a newbie in the 80's there was no need to patch machines, install updates etc. The worst threat of a virus was borrowing floppy disks.
Most users expect kit to work out the box, and why not, I can't thing of any other product that needs this attention before you even try and use it.

[katyism.livejournal.com]

at least windows updates work out of the box, yet people still ignore them thinking it's a spoof or a virus (at least the callers at my work are this paranoid) so we have a bunch of windows 98 unpatched virgins on campus.

[klyf23.livejournal.com]

Well, the alternative is having the "users" install the "service packs" that come in a particular virus carrying email claiming to be from SmallSquishy.