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

From: steve (steve_at_nospamtoday.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    "Notorious" <Notorious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:FEC2310B-C141-4B9B-8876-52C9EA57D092@microsoft.com...
    > 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
    > >
    > >
    > >

    Critical updates are *always* necessary. Imagine a laptop user contracts a
    vunerability exploit (RPC or similar)outside the office, then brings his
    laptop into your network. Within minutes, your entire network could be down.
    Take a look at SUS server from MS - it's free - http://www.microsoft.com/sus

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