Re: Operative System Updates

["Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler () tysdomain com>]

On 6/14/2012 11:45 AM, haZard0us wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to create a script that gathers information of the OS before and after the updates in order to detect changes 
> and which updates/service packs were used.
>
> To be honest, I really don't know where to start. So, my question is which information should i gather in order to 
> detect correctly which files were changed and which updates were used.

> If you want to know exactly what files were changed, you can hash files, then after the update do another hash and 
> compare. You could just have a database/list of path:hash. You could also just use fswatcher or something similar.
As for what updates were installed, I think those can be found in the 
registry, you could just reference that. I do not know to much about it 
though. There may be more elegant solutions--I'm not sure, just wanted 
to throw that out as an idea.

HTH,

> Thanks in advance.
>
> --haZ
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