Cool, I'll check out that patch site. Thanks! Mike B
Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 Office: (508)898-7102 Cell: (508)958-2780 Pager: (877)552-3945 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blue Boar Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:03 PM To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] Command line patch checker available? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I remember at one time that the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer > was a command line only executable and didn't require anything to be > installed on the machine. It does not appear that this is the case > any longer. > > Although it's still based off of HFNETCHK, it has to be installed, > but then can be run via command line. I'd like to find a patch > checker that is command line runnable and doesn't have to be > installed. I don't mind downloading an XML file listing of current > patches, as long as I can do that beforehand. > > I basically want to stick this on a USB drive and run it on a machine > without installing anything on the machine it get run on. I haven't used any of them myself. Shavlik provides a direct replacement hfnetchk, I believe. You can also check the patchmanagement.org archives, I know this has been asked a couple of times in the past there. BB _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
