[dayglored]

If you've got a setup that works for you and you're NOT connected to the Internet, no problem.

But that's far from the typical Windows user case.

Anybody surfing the web these days with an unpatched system is asking for more trouble than if they do the patches, statistically speaking.

[JRandomFreeper]

I let my network handle the virus threat and it does a great job, and has for years.

The laptop is never connected to the raw internet. I would be crazy to do that. ;)

Even I'm not that crazy.

I just don't like fixing something that works like I want it to.

/johnny

[upchuck]

My Win XP SP3 machine is connected to the Internet ususally for several hours per day, at least.

I’m on a dial-up line which is why I don’t do updating. Updates can take hours to download.

Fortunately, I’ve had no trouble with bad guys, viruses or malware. I’ve thought part of that could be it takes too long to download the bad stuff at 56K :)