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Anyone have hard evidence of problems with Windows Automatic Updates? Mar 20 2003 08:49PM Thomas Cameron (ThomasC mip com) (4 replies) RE: Anyone have hard evidence of problems with Windows Automatic Updates? Mar 21 2003 04:22PM james leafgrove com (James D Stallard) Re: Anyone have hard evidence of problems with Windows Automatic Upda tes? Mar 20 2003 11:19PM Armando Ortiz (aortiz onlinetraffic com) Re: Anyone have hard evidence of problems with Windows Automatic Upda tes? Mar 20 2003 10:49PM John Jasen (jjasen realityfailure org) |
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> We are using the Windows 2000 automatic update feature on several of our
> production servers.
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> One of my fellow IT team members has expressed concern that Microsoft has a
> bad history of releasing hotfixes which break servers. I can find lots of
> anecdotal evidence that this has happened, but only a very limited number of
> cases where some specific configurations were negatively impacted by hotfix
> application.
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> Does anyone have any hard evidence that automatic updates are a Bad
> Thing(tm)?
Read the paper published by WireX and Zero Knowledge Systems folks:
"Timing the Application of Security Patches for Optimal Uptime".
(Google for it.)
Based on a sample of 136 total CVE entries, 20 patches were
"determined to be faulty, all but one (CVE-2001-0341) had an
updated patch released." And the one was pulled and never
re-released.
Faulty patches are a real phenomenon.
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