Windows Update and NT4 Workstation?

From: John Brock (jbrock_at_panix.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: 26 Oct 2003 19:10:46 -0500

I am currently running NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a. A little while
ago I got burned when Windows Update offered me a security update
which broke IE6, and someone said that this happened because
Microsoft is no longer supporting NT4 Workstation, and thus no
longer testing updates against it. This of course made me very
nervous about using Windows Update (although I think I did use it
once since then).

But I don't want to leave my system vulnerable, and looking at the
Critical Update that is being offered by Windows Update just now
I see NT 4.0 mentioned explicitly in the update descriptions. I
applied KB823182, which needed to be applied by itself, and which
doesn't seem to have broken anything, but I lost my nerve looking
at the bundled update package (KB824141, KB828035, KB825119,
KB828750, and KB824146), in particular because of the complaints
I've read here concerning the October cumulative IE update.

So my question is this: as a user of NT 4.0 Workstation, should I
be using the Windows Update web page at all?

Naively I would think that if Microsoft didn't test an update
against NT4 then it wouldn't list it for NT4 users, and we would
just have to do without, which might be a problem with respect to
security, but at least we wouldn't break our machines by applying
untested updates. But is this the case? Does the fact that NT4
Workstation is out of service mean that I can no longer trust
anything Windows Update tells me to do? Or can I? Anyone know? 

-- 
John Brock
jbrock@panix.com

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