AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
Jared Mauch
jared at puck.Nether.net
Fri Oct 24 04:22:33 UTC 2003
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:13:59AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7278
>
> How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their
> connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's
> Windows computers?
Sounds good to me. The potential for these users
to be less-than-educated enough about the existance of
this "feature" means that the potential for this to
increase the overall network security is a good thing.
Hopefully they will enable automatic checking and
downloading of critical software updates as well.
- jared
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