At the time the company said security improvements were on the way and today it unveiled PCguard which will offer a firewall, a pop-up blocker, antivirus, anti-spyware, greater parental controls and automatic updates.
Large companies can exercise more control using Systems Management Server, also known as SMS. Microsoft Update is similar to Windows Update and includes the Automatic Updates feature, plus access to security and reliability updates for Office and...
The number of flaws reported in firewalls have rocketed by nearly 50 per cent over the past four years because IT pros don't know how to configure them. But they are not any easier to configure today than they were five years ago.
SMS is aimed at allowing large companies to distribute software updates and patches automatically to PCs over corporate networks. The company has two main management software programs: MOM and Systems Management Server (SMS).
Automatic Updates will first notify people when IE 7 is ready to install and then show a welcome screen that presents key features and the choices to install, not install or postpone installation. Although IE 7 will be pushed out over Automatic...
Automatic installation of security patches might have helped prevent the recent MSBlast worm, which successfully attacked hundreds of thousands of PCs that had not installed a month-old patch. Microsoft is considering changing the way that Windows...