To that end, it would be great to have a central management interface to install/manage/monitor client machines on the network.
I'm not sure if this is what AJHunt had in mind, but I would love to see an update manager.
My problem at the moment is that I am using a borrowed laptop that runs Norton. My application keeps stalling and when I kill it and restart the system tells me that ccsvchost.exe was the culprit.
So I try to be charitable. Maybe Symantec has fixed the problem, I think, and I have just not installed the security updates, just the way I have not installed the Adobe Flash updates
and the Picasa updates. I don't mind updating. What I mind is that when the updates finish they usually demand that I restart the machine, usually when I am doing something else.
When I'm ready to install the updates, as I am now, they are scattered all the over the place.
If I had an app that grouped all my updates in one place I could authorize them to update, and then restart the system once. I could deal with that. Especially if I could click on it at the end of my session, instead of the way the updates popups appear at the beginning of my session.
I realize that this is not really a suggestion for a security product, but I think it could be helpful for Endpoint Security Manager. In that case, it's the network administrator who has to authorize all those updates anyway.
Thanks and happy new year.
Katharine
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