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Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?
From: Lawrence MacIntyre <lpz () ornl gov>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 08:16:55 -0400
Stefano: I rebuilt my Windows 2000 system from scratch this spring because of an update. I can't remember the patch number anymore, but I remember that it was a critical security update. I also remember reading about it the day after it happened to me. Supposedly it was related to another patch that had been previously applied and it only happened to W2K Pro. The symptom was that the machine blue-screened during startup. Safe Mode didn't help. Now I don't let Windows Update touch my machine until the patch has been there for about 2 weeks and I haven't heard anything bad about it. On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 15:01, Stefano Zanero wrote:
I know of no patch which caused all systems to shutdown, or refuse toreboot. Ahem, Russ, this is something of a bold claim, unless you stress the ALL :) There have been some deeply troubling patches in the past, I hope you're not trying to dismiss that. And about mis-signatures, may I remind you of the fact that a Microsoft certificate was wrongly released and signed by Verisign a number of months ago ? Enabling a world-wide auto-update feature does indeed seem much of a security risk to me. Regards, Stefano
Current thread:
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Stefano Zanero (Sep 02)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Paul Schmehl (Sep 03)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Kurt Seifried (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Jeremy C. Reed (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Stefano Zanero (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Barry Fitzgerald (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Lawrence MacIntyre (Sep 03)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Andrew Gideon (Sep 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Aaron Cheek (Sep 04)
- RE: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Schmehl, Paul L (Sep 04)
- RE: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Schmehl, Paul L (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Paul Schmehl (Sep 03)