.NET; The Skinny

[NoEcho]

I'm running a win2k system and recently got a saphire 800. The drivers for this video card include .NET 1.1.

Windows Update definitely wants to install some .NET update on my computer. Tells me it's for my own security.

I've generally avoided the .NET stuff because it seems to involve backdooring myself for MS's (and any scumbag webstire operator's) convenience.

But I'm not sure.

I'm frankly not sure whether I've already installed it. Tips on how to check for that would be cool.

What I'd like to know, though, would be basically what .NET does, how secure it actually is, whether it should be installed or avoided like the plague.

 

[MorfiusX]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net_framework

It's doesn't increase or decrease the security of your system.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Think of it as a new mini-database engine built into Windows.

 

[ZoT]

but watch out for the black helicopters anyway

 

[NoEcho]

How does one check if it's installed?

 

[fibroptikl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net_framework

It's doesn't increase or decrease the security of your system.

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[NoEcho]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

How does one check if it's installed?

Add/remove programs.

"Microsoft .NET Framework <version>"

 

[movax]

.NET is a framework for "managed" code and a shitload of other marketing buzzwords. Once Vista is mainstream, and since it supposedly has .NET as an integral part of the OS, more apps will use it, probably. MFC and relatives' deathknell in all likelihood.

 

[NoEcho]

Add/remove programs.

"Microsoft .NET Framework <version>"

TY.