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Security Patches by Modem? Forget it!
Scott Granneman, 2004-03-24

Let's face it - there is no way for dial-up users on any major operating system to keep their computers up-to-date and patched. OK, maybe "no way" is an exaggeration. How about, "a difficult, burdensome, time-consuming, very prone to failure way?"

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Security Patches by Modem? Forget it! 2004-03-25
Anonymous
About time they came out with a patch disk. A recent Win ME to XP upgrade took 14 hours of download time.

I have had "locked-down but unpatched" Win 2K servers compromised within 60 seconds of being on the internet (it was even running Zone Alarm and anti-virus software -- it took an external fi...

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