What is interesting is that most people with modern computers will never deal with a network driver. That requires knowing how to update the driver manually and a lot of people either don't know how to do that or don't bother to learn. Keeping a driver current is hard for a lot of people unless they work at it. While I'm fairly sure a lot of computers search for network and other integral hardware drivers, I know for a fact a lot of them do not. I don't know about you, but my computer doesn't regularly check for updates of network drivers so how would I know about an update unless I manually searched for one from the manufacturer? Let's say that a bunch of hackers get together and find an exploit in a common wireless driver. July 3, - it is convenient those drivers are often invisible but that can be a problem.

There are a lot of computers out there without built in wireless and that means they have to install a wireless adapter that will almost always require the installation of drivers.įor some reasons, devices like that often 'phone home' and inform you that you need an update.

Update network drivers