North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
> > 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. The "without notice" part is perhaps somewhat unsettling. I can appreciate that attempting to explain this type of change to the AOL user base would be challenging, but I'd submit that third-party software making OS changes like this without the user's knowledge could be "thin ice" territory. Where is the line drawn once this path is chosen? -Terry
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