Some of the Most Malware Infected Computers I run into have all the Microsoft Updates.
So they really just give a User a false sense of security.
I don't have any
Microsoft Updates on my computers, and manage to avoid all the crap by practicing
Safe Web surfing, and safe email handling.
Google recently published a report
that One out of Ten Web sites are Booby Trapped with Malware, and about One out of
Four Windows Computers is already infected.