Re: Windows Update and NT4 Workstation?
From: Jacob Michals (jacobmichals_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/27/03
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:52:25 GMT
You should update to win2k. there are a number of fixes for it and the
amount of time you waste
trying to patch a system that is no longer supports puts you in a dangerous
position.
Especially if you are concerned with security.
JM
"John Brock" <jbrock@panix.com> wrote in message
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> 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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