Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?

From: Nick FitzGerald (nick_at_virus-l.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/17/04

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:15:31 +1300

    Troy <th@zeno.com> wrote:

    > Actually, that CD only includes the updates as of October 2003. It is
    > not meant as a replacement for security updates, but just to make it
    > easier to do a clean install of Windows. I suppose part of it is to
    > lessen the load on Microsoft's Windows Updates servers, ...

    Perhaps, but I doubt it... I can't see the bandwidth costs (at the
    relatively high discount rate MS must get for all its bandwidth) of the
    necessary downloads for all those unpatched users who order this CD
    outweighing the P&P for fulfilling the CD orders.

    I think MS has finally realized that while dial-up users are not at all
    likely to get the large security updates (IE version upgrades, OS
    service packs), they can be significant combined part in the overall
    problem of unpatched machines. This is the easy way for such users to
    "catch up" (it's just a pity that there is such a huge lag between MS
    freezing the disk's contents and pressing and shipping it -- for moost
    Xp users it will arrive about a wek before they face downloading SP2
    and that is likely to be around 150MB I hear...).

    > ... but it does make
    > re-installing Windows much easier and faster for the average user who
    > does not know how to slipstream the updates into the Windows install CD.

    That is an additional benefit, but I suspect not the main concern...

    Regards,

    Nick FitzGerald

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