Re: Product Support Services - MALICIOUS ACTIVITY RELATING TO MS04-011

From: S. Pidgorny (slavickp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:16:51 +1000

I believe Microsoft is always hosting their own content, only delegating DNS
management to Akamai/Savvis

Use Windows Update to get the patch. Do that now. 

-- 
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-
"Rob Godfrey" <rob_godfrey@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:408d8766$0$31684$fa0fcedb@lovejoy.zen.co.uk...
> I believe Microsoft's FTP distribution is farmed out to a Content
> Distribution Network (I can't remember each one).  I there any way to
> download directly from Microsoft?  The folks I work for don't authorise
> downloads from any CDN due to the potential for compromise but would allow
> it from MS directly.
>
> The idea of waiting to get the updates on CD is just silly but I can't see
a
> truly secure way of making sure I've downloaded a genuine patch.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>

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