Exactly - autoupdate is very important for the vast majority of users - and that's what has me POd the most with this mcafee crap. Microsoft came to that conclusion and it's why WU is enabled on newer machines. The average user just can't be trusted to update. And if it takes too much effort, like it does with mcafee, they'll never do it. (As my daughter never did - it also never ever told her her defs were more than two weeks old - only that there were updates, did she want to install them, then required a log in to install.)
Norton still gets all the info they need to hound you for money for the updates when one installs any of their software. Most people are use to registering software now a days so why should AV be any different ? Why should it be ok to register with MSFT & not McAfee ? Isn't keeping one's computer safe from buggies as important as the OS itself ? I mean after all if the thing gets enough of the wrong kind of buggies the OS won't run. Oh, I forgot MSFT doesn't actually require one to register & neither does McAfee.
I only install McAfee 4.51 & not the newer stuff because as Bill says it's bloatware. I actually turn off the automatic updates & make them go to <http://download.mcafee.com/us/updates/superDat.asp?real=0> from a link that I put on the Link Bar because no matter what interval I had the thing auto update on they'd still got infected. Come to find out they'd turn off the update or some other stupid thing.
I switched over to autoupdate about a year or so ago for WU for my own machine and can't wait for Office to offer it.
Hmm, it's funny you mentioned that as I'm beta testing MU as we speak & I just downloaded some Office Updates last night. While I never cared whether I updated Office on time or not it was nice that I got the update automatically but except in a few rare cases I'm sure that office updates are not a security concern to the average home/soho user but more likely it could be to business clients which MSFT always caters to anyway.
Ive always set AV on auto - it wasn't worth the effort to remember to do it weekly, and even less to do it daily.
You're the exception as most people still don't have broadband because of the cost &/or availability. Hey, I'd be happy if some of my clients would do it monthly as I still have clients that turn off NAV live update as soon as Symantec starts demanding money.
I put phil and the kids on autoupdate long before. It's easier than checking each machine regularly.
If you ask me they should be responsible for their own AV updates as security is as much a state of mind as it is anything. Right, Bernie ? ;-)
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