Hi, Today, I booted to Windows after 4-5 months. Because of my switch to Linux, I have been behaving like an average Windows user, not going out of my way to protect the OS.
A pop up appeared and told me that my AVG free anti-virus 7.1 will not be updated ever again after Jan 15th, and that I should update to 7.5. Without this pop up, however annoying, I would not have known that I will not be getting any security updates. That would leave me vulnerable to everything out there... I think our end-users who do not like to go out of their way to learn about what's going on in the community could really use such a feature. This idea was discussed before, but nothing happened. So I wanted to attract your attention to this issue again. At the least, if it is do-able, for desktop users, you could change the background picture to something that says "upgrade because your current version will not get security updates within 1 month."... or maybe a pop up by update-manager? I suspect that server users are more security-savvy and don't need such intervention. Thanks :) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
