A good antivirus program should update quietly in the background (at least daily) regardless of your current logon privileges, so no worry here. In Windows XP, every 2 or 3 weeks I log in to my administrator account and click on Microsoft Update. I run Secunia PSI to see if anything else should be updated; I do all the updates from the administrator account. (Except extensions to Firefox &c, which are installed separately for each user.) Then I run several antimalware programs, clean up temp files and other garbage, and optimize my system with MyDefrag. (I can do housework or read paper books while these apps do their things.) Then back to my limited logon for actual use of the system.

If you don’t know Secunia, Firefox, MyDefrag, &c, search for them in Wikipedia, where you will find links to the official site. This is a good way to avoid fraudulent imitations.

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I ended up using Solo Owl’s method to update last night. It required fewer steps and decisions. But xAdmin’s tip to be logged on as administrator probably saved me some missteps and grief, although I didn’t know if I only needed to be logged on as administrator just to run the downloaded patch, or if I needed administrator rights to download it, too.

I’m not very comfortable trying to figure out when I need to be in my administrator account. Some antimalware programs, for example, require separate updates in each account (and don’t update the other account), and some allow updates to be made in the admin account only (but update the limited account, too). I tried to make a chart, but gave up. I feel I spend too much time trying to be secure, yet I still fear keystroke loggers!

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Also stewing in this competitive cauldron is a market of a billion new customers, plus or minus, and, in a culture where preserving “Face”…individually and corporately…..trumps just about everything else, Google has a real tightrope act. Westerners are at a distinctive and inherent disadvantage.

We’re lucky to have Brian Krebs keeping up with this complicated cat-and-mouse situation for us.

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I think I’ve seen two alerts over the last two years that I’ve actually needed to react quickly to. I’ll install this one in a month or two, after everybody else has tested it out for me

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Aloha!

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Seriously, you CAN find the download and manually install it by going to the Technet link Brian provided (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-002.mspx), scroll down to “Affected and Non-Affected Software”, find your version of IE and OS, and click the link next to it under “Component” (ex. Internet Explorer 8), which will take you to a page to download the exe file. After it downloads, run it (logged in as Administrator of course).

Or, you can always go to the Microsoft Download Center and search for it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx

But, the best and easiest method to ensure you have ALL critical updates, is to use Windows Update/Microsoft Update. I would highly recommend using the newer Microsoft Update at http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate

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