We decided to provide a report card on how each of us did working through the list of potential reads. Last year I set some book goals, and so did my co-host. Nerd Journey # 161 - Booking the Time to Read in 2022 Best Practices & General IT.Especially if you don't have a firewall that virus scans everything as users surf the web. Read up on the Sinowal virus, that will sufficiently scare you to update client software regularly. There are many viruses out there that take advantage of outdated programs, especially Adobe Reader. It's important to note that if you turn off these features, you have to be vigilant about updating the software on your end users computers.
It will also let you turn off that annoying taskbar icon that comes up when there is a new version of JRE available.
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That's where I got the info on how to turn off the auto updates. AppDeploy is great for finding info on automating installs and customizing them. If you look at, and search for your version of JRE. If I remember right, I used Microsoft ORCA to create the transform. I'm not sure about JRE, the way I stopped the auto updates was with a transform applied to the MSI when I installed it. If your firewall doesn't do it, you could create a fake DNS domain on your internal DNS server for with an A record for and point it to 127.0.0.1 for example. I believe it works for Flash Player as well. If you can block a domain on your network with your firewall, blocking will stop the auto updates for Adobe Reader.