My cousin in Denver said he just clicks 'remind me later' on every Windows update for months

Emery Thomas · 2026-04-10T05:00:04.29393+00:00

He told me that over Thanksgiving dinner, and I had to explain how that one habit left his laptop wide open for the ransomware that hit his small business last spring.

reese_thompson745mo ago

Yeah, that reminds me of my old roommate who did the same thing. His whole photo library got locked up by some crypto virus, and he never got it back. Makes you wonder what @the_seth would have said to him before it happened.

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the_seth5mo ago

Months of ignoring updates?

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charles_kim2mo ago

@reese_thompson74 Totally get where you're coming from, but I'd push back a little. Sometimes those updates break stuff too, and for a small business owner who can't afford downtime, postponing a few days to test things first isn't always the worst call.

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