----- Original Message ----- From: "Moyer, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 1:16 AM Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS-02-052 [snip] > It is quite lame to make this only available via Windows Update. A lot of > people are deploying their own internal patch management methods and > blocking Windows Update / disabling the new AutoUpdate stuff so that patches > can be tested and verified first rather than letting the end-user make the > call. Not making the patches available any other way makes that kinda tough > to do. Hopefully we'll see the same patch in another form later on. [snip]
By "only" I assume that you are also referring to http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ that allows you to download service packs and hotfixes in their entirety for testing and subsequent push deployment from your patchbox ? OK you do need to accept the javascript and the ActiveX controls and it can be a bit fiddly; you will probably get the warnings as well - AFAIR they sign the cab file but not all the files it contains. Or you could script up some wgets and pull the updates from ftp.microsoft.com ? You can probably also get them on CD from MSDN as well. But you are correct that you can only get them from one place, and it's Microsoft ;-) Cheers. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
