RE: Critical Updates - Are they necessary on clients behind firewall ?

From: Notorious (Notorious_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:35:01 -0700

Of course you should. Look at this way, suppose that your firewall is donw for a day or so. Can you imagine the bugs or attacks you are opening up to!

"Nevets Yennep" wrote:

>
>
> Simple question - Many opinions?
> I am looking for opinion on whether critical updates are necessary to the
> workstation's operating system
> when you are running a Windows 2000 Server network. Our Network has 20
> clients mostly Windows 2000 Pro
> workstations, some XP, some ME. We have Symantec Norton anti-virus running
> on all machines and
> WinProxy on the firewall computer connected to the internet. There are still
> several machines with dial-up
> service and of course people have laptops and "A" drives.
> My question is simple. Should I keep the critical update's current on the
> clients? Our network IT guy is very "off the cuff" and states it is not
> necessary
> WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?
> Please post answer to this group as my email is bogus.
> Spam Kills.
>
> Thanks,
> Nevets Yennep
>
>
>

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