RE: which security hotfixs to implemet ?

From: Prasanna M (PrasannaM_at_catsglobal.co.in)
Date: 11/25/04

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    To: 'Craig Woodward ' <secfreak@hotmail.com>, "'security-basics@securityfocus.com '" <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:48:12 +0530

    My first reaction was also to ask why unnecessary software/services were
    present, but then I checked and now I am not sure if there is a clean way to
    remove the "basic" media player(v6.4)? I checked out the services,windows
    components,add/remove progs. The only place that was left was to delete the
    files and remove from registry?
    Do let me know if there is another way to get this done.

    Prasanna

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Craig Woodward
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Sent: 11/25/2004 12:59 AM
    Subject: Re: which security hotfixs to implemet ?

    At the risk of sounding petulant, why keep Media player installed if
    there's
    no intention of using it?
    Quite a few of the exploits detail whether they are exploitable if the
    application is present, even if not in use. It would be best to read
    the
    details for each update to see if they apply to you.

    Craig

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Juan B" <juanbabi@yahoo.com>
    To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:16 AM
    Subject: which security hotfixs to implemet ?

    > 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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