From: "AMUN" <spamblocker@bell.net>


|
| To answer your question that app is not going to do any harm.
|
| But like a few others here, I don't even recommend allowing windows to
| auto-update.
| I'm just waiting for the day I start hearing on the news that some
| enterprising hacker finds a hole in that and starts auto uploading viruses
| to everyone's machines
|
| Better to just get into the habit of checking every several days, and then
| doing the manual update to see what they are trying to force on you.
| I'm still blocking their "critical update" that will put IE 7 on my machine.
|

Contrary to that assertion...

I DO recommend using Auto-Updates.
It is an important way to protect oneself against exploitations that are used in the wild.
Most notable are the WMF and ANI Exploits.

The caveat...
An update that behaves "badly". This happens from time-to-time.
However all updates can be Rolled-Back.

The fact is the average person will NOT check for old and vulnerable versions of software or
check the Windows Update Web Site on a periodic basis. The avg. person doesn't even think
about such things at all.

Check your own PC and see if you left something out that needs to be updated.
http://secunia.com/software_inspector


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm