On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 04:51:25PM -0700, Sergiy Zhuk wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ralf Rudolph wrote: > > > btw: The yahoo pager is only one example: Many software vendors offer > > online upgrades. It just sounds like a bad idea to me to allow this > > yes, Symantec, for example... Actually, form the point of view of having to look after thousands of lusers with a combined IQ on 9, automatic upgrades are incredibly attractive. I would estimate that fewer than 50% of modern 'net users are incapable of saving a file to the desktop and then executing it, without considerably hand holding - let alone trying to verify it is indeed the correct file. If downloaded updates can be verifying using a key/certificate that originally came with the ship physical media, then for many non-technical people this is a safer and superior solution that manually downloading and installing updates for the simple reason that many non-technical people can easily be duped into downloading and installing bogus or trojan software. -cw
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