There are after market alternatives which use a different approach such as hfnetchk pro at http://www.shavlik.com/ and securit-e-updater at http://www.s-doc.com/products/securitelok.asp
_____________________ Dave Kleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netmedic.net -----Original Message----- From: Jason Coombs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 14:38 To: Jed Needle; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Critical/Security Updates as well as other Patch Management SUS is nothing more than a filter for windowsupdate.com that tells managed boxes not to allow windowsupdate.com to install anything other than the subset of updates approved by the SUS administrator. Each Windows box still uses Windows update directly, so all vulnerabilities that impact Windows update and the client-side code that talks to windowsupdate.com are still present when SUS is used. Jason Coombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jed Needle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Critical/Security Updates as well as other Patch Management On Microsoft platforms there is a patch management util called SUS "software update service?? (I think) Once configured, the server will automatically download relevant patches, you then point the clients to the sus server and push updates to clients that way. Jed
