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interestingly enough .. (Score:2, Interesting)
although it's not exactly to do with patches, I know of quite a few people who've never bothered to update their antivirus. It is only a few megabytes, but they just don't bother..
A few years of doing this, and if they don't have virus attacks, and they wonder about the practice of having antivirus at all. I guess it's only a big deal if you get online (some machines are just standalone) and also if you expose your machines to applications from (possibly) untrustworthy sources..
Isn't patching an extension
microsoft has lead people to believe this is norma (Score:3, Insightful)
Further to this, there is a healthy industry built on MS products that sell only because people would rather use the same software and play the same games as everybody else, such as Virus Checkers, personal firewalls, millions of shareware tools to fix holes or add basic functionality, etc.
Its a way of life for windows users. Its how they have always used computers, and its all they know.
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;
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