Re: Ques about Patches

From: shaza (mau-cat_at_excite.com)
Date: 10/03/03 

Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:48:49 -0700

  Hi Herb and Renegade,

  Thank you for replying. I was kind of hoping there was a
patch like that..wishful thinking on my part ;-)
   Have a good evening!
                                   shaza
>-----Original Message-----
>MS typically issues "hot fix" patches to address security
holes as they are
>discovered. They will then eventually roll those fixes
into a major Service
>Pack release. So, no, there is no "one" patch that
addresses everything.
>If you want to stay the most current, you need to install
hot patches and
>SP's as they are issued.
>
>R
>www.networktiger.com
>
>"shaza" <mau-cat@excikte.com> wrote in message
>news:1c5e01c38754$9a18e030$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is a single patch available
>> that corrects all these "known" security vulnerabilites?
>> There are just so many patches and from I have seen,
some
>> of them have flaws in them, some even cause the system
to
>> go nuts. Rather than download all these patches, I'd
like
>> to know if there is just one patch that covers it all.
>> Thank you,
>> shaza
>
>
>.
>

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