PreviousFriday 17 September 2004, 12:22 PM
Why am I spending hours downloading a 100MB update?
Not only do I have to spend 2 hours downloading this thing (and I'm on broadband), but when I finally get it installed (worked OK), I discover that I have a glorified personal firewall and pop-up blocking (which I had before) and that's about it.
Four or five of my applications stopped working completely, and the next day I got an infection while browsing the Web (some nasty DSO exploit) despite my use of the two leading anti-spyware applications and a subscription to McAfee's business-class anti-virus service -- all up to date and innoculated.
Nice. I spend the next two business days fighting to stop the pop-ups and looking up exploits instead of working, and frankly, I'm tired of it.
SuSE Linux, Apple, I don't know. But SP2 finally (after 10 years) is making me look at alternatives. Microsoft sucks, and SP2 is indicitive of why. 100 MB for *no* benefit.
Still, you need it, so go download and install it, and pray and hope it works for you.
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