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I have, as a matter of course, turned off automatic update on every windows machine that I have ever run.

On this one I am still running XP sp1.

I patch my own system (and the machines at the place I work, which run from 98 though xp pro with some ME thrown in) where and when we need it.

As we have a ban on IE and Outlook here, we just don't think that most of the security patches are needed or even safe.

Possibly, I would change my mind on this if I saw the source code; I just can't bring myself to trust other programmers though.

Certainly not the hacks that brought us Vista and IE7.