[en] Automatic updates

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that Microsoft published Windows XP SP2 and made a lot of fuzz about it. If you are not masochist enough to run Windows, maybe you do not know that one of the new "features" is that you are strongly advised to enable the automatic Windows Update. If you disable it, the "security center" will warn you that your system may be at risk, and that you really should enable Windows Update back.
If you are masochist enough to run Windows, I guess you also have an antivirus scanner. And the gizmo updates itself regularly, and warns you when its signature database is out of date.

I have good news and bad news:

• The number of security advisories is still climbing, watching them takes more and more time. Some people are taking care of your computer security, you don't have to read Bugtraq.
• The price you pay is that you are losing control of this f*ing machine. You did not control it much, but it is definitely going to be worse.