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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
rarchimedes
This is possibly the simplest, best exposition of this problem that I have seen. As a consultant, I despair of finding ways to keep my dial-up customers current. Most of them just give up, repeatedly, despite my best efforts to encourage or terrify them. Six months old security updates are completel...

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