Captain's Log, stardate Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:13:27 +0000, from the fingers of kevin lyda came the words:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:05:49PM +0000, Ken Gilmour wrote:
>>> intimidate some people, however windows update (automatic or
>> manual) has a new thing called BITS (i think) which allows you to
>> download bits of the service pack at a time and resume it later
>> on. So you could technically do it in the background over a few
>> connections without even knowing it... but still it would make
>> everything even slower which you don't want on a dialup
>>>> and while it trickles down, your machine gets broken into.
Hah! Point taken! (even though this stuff was tested without a firewall etc) (not to mention that software firewalls (for windows) are crap anyway!).
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