I can see the benifits of this for business users perhaps but for stand alone PC's?
Santa Clara-based Intel envisions consumers one day signing up for a service that allows their Internet service providers to automatically install security upgrades and patches, whether the PC is turned on or not. Once they return to their computers, users would then get an alert with a detailed record of the fixes.
Intel is hoping consumers will decide that the convenience of having a round-the-clock watchdog outweighs the obvious privacy concerns.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?.../n122612D04.DTL