RE: MS Service Packs

From: Alastair Cook (Alastair.Cook_at_crown.uk.com)
Date: 06/20/03

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    Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:11:06 +0100
    
    

    You can just run windows update on a vanilla install and get the SP, it will
    detect it's not there.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: matt [mailto:mdtallon@pobox.com]
    Sent: 19 June 2003 19:20
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

    Is that to say that you can't just run Windows Update on a fresh install and
    get the needed Service Pack as well as the patches?
    I thought Update was capable of detecting all necessary fixes...

    > Well as far as I know, once you visit windows update, it will only
    > have you install patches that you don't have installed. So I assume
    > once installing SP3 and doing Windows Update, you should have
    > everything.

    >> From my experience Once you' ve installed SP3 you have to run
    >> windows update so that you can get all the patches starting from when
    >> SP3 was released.

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