Re: which security hotfixs to implemet ?

From: xyberpix (xyberpix_at_xyberpix.com)
Date: 11/24/04

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    To: Juan B <juanbabi@yahoo.com>
    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:19:56 +0000
    
    
    

    Hi Juan,

    Personally I would say yes, as I feel that you never can be too careful,
    if one exploit has been found and made public, who knows how many others
    this one can lead to that have not been made public?

    Just my 2p's worth

    xyberpix

    On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 04:16 -0800, Juan B wrote:
    > Hi,
    > I ran microsoft baseline security against our IIS web
    > servers.
    > the output ( for example) on some servers was that
    > there are some critical updates related to windows
    > media player which I need to implement ,my question
    > is: Do I really need to implement fixes to
    > applications that I dont use ( but still are installed
    > on the server) on those servers (like windwos media
    > player that we dont use on our web servers? ).
    >
    > thanks !
    >
    >
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