Re: How to determine when a patch was applied ?

From: H C (keydet89@yahoo.com)
Date: 06/07/02 

Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:45:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: H C <keydet89@yahoo.com>
To: x30n@hushmail.com, focus-ms@securityfocus.com

A couple of thoughts...

1. I haven't checked lately, but do the
patches/hotfixes still include an install date as one
of the key/value pairs in the Registry key created for
that patch?

2. Either way, go to:

http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/perl.html

look for 'keytime.pl'. This script retrieves and
translates the LastWrite time for Registry keys
(appear as folders in RegEdit). Unless the key
contents are somehow modified (written to) after the
installation, the LastWrite time should also be the
date and time the key was created.

HTH,

Carv

--- x30n@hushmail.com wrote:
>
>
> Has anyone got any useful scripts / utils that I
> could use (Rather than
> writing a perl one myself) that i can point at a
> server and rather than
> just telling me if a patch is applied (a la
> hfnetchk) that can also tell
> me when patches were applied. So that I run the
> util/script against a
> server or list of servers and it could tell me what
> patches had been
> applied in say the last day / week ?
>
> I know how to determine when a patch was applied
> manually i.e. look at
> the hidden uninstall directories in %systemroot% I
> just want a more
> automated method, preferably an executabel / perl
script.

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