Last weekend after being frustrated with the performance of one of my computers, I decided to spend some time and track down the problem. Turns out I had more than my share of update agents, some of which were clogging my CPU doing who knows what …
At the Web 2.0 Expo, there were a couple of security talks that said the browser had no security model and that desktops were so much better from a security point-of-view. I am sorry to say this experience has taught me that the desktop is just as bad. I bet even after my efforts to get rid of stuff, there is still a whole bunch of stuff running on my machine and I have no clue where it came from or what it does for me (or them ??) …