RE: SQL Server patch - why doesn't Windows upda te help?

[John.Airey () rnib org uk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Reed [mailto:avalon () coombs anu edu au]
> Sent: 30 January 2003 22:23
> To: netw3_security () hushmail com
> Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] SQL Server patch - why doesn't Windows
> update help?
>
>
> > Windows Update does not cover SQL Server. 

The whole update process from Microsoft is pants. Try installing a new
Windows 2000 server with SP3 and run both "hfnetchk" and "Windows Update" on
the machine. You'll see two different sets of updates, with a small union of
those. You'd at least expect Windows Update to be a subset of updates found
with "hfnetchk", but it isn't.

Compare this to Red Hat Network. You can see at a glance whether your
registered servers are up to date (from anywhere with Internet Access).
There are probably other Linux distros that do the same.

It really makes me wonder sometimes why we put up with this rubbish
software. One could understand this happening if Microsoft had been broken
up into separate companies, but it hasn't.

- 
John Airey, BSc (Jt Hons), CNA, RHCE
Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the
Blind,
Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU,
Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey () rnib org uk 

Nearly everything we believe is second hand. For example, less than 500
people have seen the Earth from space, yet the majority of people believe it
is round (OK pedants, an oblate sphere).

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