How/When do you update?

[pluggers]

Auto updates, but I will choose which updates to download and install.

 

[DieselE]

I voted semi-manual (or semi-auto if you're a glass full kind of guy) but the one exception is Kaspersky Anti-virus which is on full auto as it checks for updates every three hours.

 

[Mondorich]

I presume we are talking home users, so at home I auto download, prompt to install, then custom install to see what I am installing. HTH.

Ditto.

 

[ShinyF1]

I'm semi-manual too. But also poll-challenged as I selected the wrong option

Also chose wrong option - actually semi manual, voted auto

 

[gl boy]

i always use automatic update and also check manually every now and then just too make sure i am fully up to date regards jon

 

[stevesey]

At home totally manual - if it ain't broke... (and somehting to do with not wanting auto updates to break my WGA workaround )

In an enterprise environment updates should be manual - current financial institution I'm at has a regular monthly patching cycle for all it's severs (and desktops). And all updates are tested beforehand in the test environment.

Spinal - I'm assuming your course is not about home computing, so it's worth making the point that business have to protect against outages caused by "automatic" updates that could impact critical applications. Personally I'd fire any IT director of an SME or above that allowed automatic updates on their business critical systems.

 

[blackscooby]

Mac update checks every week for latest security updates / patches for ALL software installed.

Downloads automatically, but I install when convenient.

 

[Spinal]

At home totally manual - if it ain't broke... (and somehting to do with not wanting auto updates to break my WGA workaround )

In an enterprise environment updates should be manual - current financial institution I'm at has a regular monthly patching cycle for all it's severs (and desktops). And all updates are tested beforehand in the test environment.

Spinal - I'm assuming your course is not about home computing, so it's worth making the point that business have to protect against outages caused by "automatic" updates that could impact critical applications. Personally I'd fire any IT director of an SME or above that allowed automatic updates on their business critical systems.

The course is really a security module which is part of my Masters, he does seem to specify which it is; but that's a great point - thanks!

blackscooby: Macs are a whole different ball game... they release just so many updates that it is near impossible to keep track of them all! We have 5 machines dedicated to testing the new updates scattered around campus... (...and people used to complain windows released lots of updates...)

Michele

 

[dsolds]

Semi-auto at home. Set restore point first so I can roll back easily if needed.
Manual at work. All patches tested in Pre-Production before being pushed to Production.