Re: XP Automatic Update
From: Radoslav Dejanoviæ (radoslav.dejanovic@zagreb.hr)Date: 03/18/02
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From: Radoslav Dejanoviæ <radoslav.dejanovic@zagreb.hr> To: "[C] Teodorski, Chris" <cteodorski@ppg.com>, "Security-Basics (E-mail)" <security-basics@securityfocus.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:12:04 +0100
On Thursday 14 March 2002 21:10, [C] Teodorski, Chris wrote:
From the article at
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D21023,00.asp
"Another IT professional, based in California, who runs Windows XP systems
for testing purposes, said that after installing the latest batch of XP
security patches on four systems running XP Professional, all the systems
became unstable. "
It isn't good idea to leave your servers nor workstations to automatically
update anything, for one simple reason - you don't know what will happen
to your system.
While it is sometimes better to do automatic patching (if we're talking
about antivirus software, for example), the example above, even if it
isn't true, reflects on what could happen to the entire company. Microsoft
has had fixes that broke things before, and this can happen to anyone,
anytime. We're talking about system reliability, and no Windows, BSD,
Linux or any other OS can protect you from automated procedure that
install bad patch to hundreds of computers, rendering them less stable or
even unusable until the vendor releases the fix to fix the fix. It is less
headache for administrators, to have Microsoft update all these machines,
but in the case they do something wrong - you won't get fired because it
is clearly their mistake, but it might cost your company lot of money, and
if you run heterogenous PC hardware, you might get all sorts of small but
annoying problems.
-- Radoslav Dejanovic Senior Associate to Mayor's Office City of Zagreb, Croatia
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