>The problems last week with Blaster showed that people don't use the update site now. Putting VFP on there may not help.

That's a good point, and quite true. However, I know significantly more people that are wanting to use the updating service after blaster got them. I had numerous requests from friends, relatives, and work colleagues on how to get the auto-update feature enabled, even from those that didn't get infected. This current interest may be only temporary, though, that I can't say...

But blaster was actually good publicity for security updates, considering it wasn't highly damaging. I finally sent out an office-wide email for home users about using the update service, noting that it's the update-service is not just a pesky tool for MS to advertise or something (which seemed to be what some people thought), but rather a critical tool that could mean life-or-death for computers. "Use it!" I emphasized.

It will only take a few more of these like blaster, or maybe just *one* "Big One" - a really nasty worm that hoses millions of computers - and the update-service will become not only much more used, but essential to nearly everyone, I'm thinking.

OTOH, MS must be extra-careful about bad-update releases like that one last month.

But this is all an evolutionary process, I figure, eventually gov'ts and industry will have to get together and work better solutions out. Personally, spam is way ahead of worms on my list of problems that need solutions - and of course spam & worms are inter-related.