Re: SQL Server patch - why doesn't Windows update help?

["Curt Wilson" <netw3_security () hushmail com>]

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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:30:05 -0800 Darren Reed <avalon () coombs anu edu au> wrote:
> I was just thinking to myself, hmmm, I have SQL Server something*
> installed on one of my Win2K boxes (service is turned off), I wonder
> if I have this patched as I do regular checkups with "Windows Update"...

Windows Update does not cover SQL Server. You need to use the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer if you are looking 
for an automated method in this case. MBSA handles a few things that WU does not, for instance SQL Server, and 
Exchange. Admins sometimes become complacent, thinking that "I run Windows Update and so now I'm secure". WU helps, but 
is only a piece of the Windows patching pie. MBSA is useful, although I've found that it misreports a variety of items, 
so you still have to vigilant.


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