Re: Command line patch checker available?

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:
> I remember at one time that the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
> was a command line only executable and didn't require anything to be
> installed on the machine.  It does not appear that this is the case
> any longer.
>
> Although it's still based off of HFNETCHK, it has to be installed,
> but then can be run via command line.  I'd like to find a patch
> checker that is command line runnable and doesn't have to be
> installed.  I don't mind downloading an XML file listing of current
> patches, as long as I can do that beforehand.
>
> I basically want to stick this on a USB drive and run it on a machine
> without installing anything on the machine it get run on.

I haven't used any of them myself.  Shavlik provides a direct 
replacement hfnetchk, I believe.  You can also check the 
patchmanagement.org archives, I know this has been asked a couple of 
times in the past there.

                                        BB
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