Experts: Don't panic over Windows flaw

zerodamage · Feb 11, 2004, 05:10 PM

"Windows users have been told not to panic after news of the latest Windows security bug made front page headlines in many of the world's newspapers.
Antivirus company Sophos has advised users to keep a sense of proportion and "calmly ensure all computers are correctly patched". The company said that as yet, there have not been any hackers or worms exploiting the flaws"

Source: ZDnet

clicker666 · Feb 11, 2004, 07:22 PM

LOL! So much for calm. I decided to patch my small network this morning. Very slow response from MS Windows Update, about 5-10 minutes for each machine. Lots of server busy and page cannot be found. It would be so nice if MS would create something similar to the Norton Corporate Antivirus Server where only one machine needs to do the updates and the others retrieve from there.

zerodamage · Feb 11, 2004, 07:24 PM

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Originally posted by clicker666
LOL! So much for calm. I decided to patch my small network this morning. Very slow response from MS Windows Update, about 5-10 minutes for each machine. Lots of server busy and page cannot be found. It would be so nice if MS would create something similar to the Norton Corporate Antivirus Server where only one machine needs to do the updates and the others retrieve from there.

It does exist. It is called SUS. Need server software such as 2003 server.

clicker666 · Feb 11, 2004, 07:28 PM

Thanks! I wasn't aware of that.

Vampyromaniac · Feb 11, 2004, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by zerodamage
"Windows users have been told not to panic

don't need to tell me, I'm not panicking over this

SpinLinkDom · Feb 11, 2004, 08:20 PM

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Originally posted by zerodamage
It does exist. It is called SUS. Need server software such as 2003 server.

There also the corporate version of WindowsUpdate, just add ?corporate=true after the url
ex: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/f...corporate=true

That way, you will be downloading the file for the os you need.

BWX · Feb 12, 2004, 04:37 AM

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Originally posted by SpinLinkDom
There also the corporate version of WindowsUpdate, just add ?corporate=true after the url
ex: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/f...corporate=true

That way, you will be downloading the file for the os you need.

The page cannot be found

that's what page that link takes me to.

Vampyromaniac · Feb 12, 2004, 04:58 AM

try http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...corporate=true

PangingJr · Feb 12, 2004, 05:52 AM

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com

1) add this to the above -> /catalog/en/default.asp
2) or this -> /en/default.asp?corporate=true

both links will take you to the Windows Update Catalog site.

Feb 11, 2004, 05:10 PM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Experts: Don't panic over Windows flaw "Windows users have been told not to panic after news of the latest Windows security bug made front page headlines in many of the world's newspapers. Antivirus company Sophos has advised users to keep a sense of proportion and "calmly ensure all computers are correctly patched". The company said that as yet, there have not been any hackers or worms exploiting the flaws" Source: ZDnet

Feb 12, 2004, 04:58 AM	#8
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Feb 11, 2004, 07:22 PM	#2
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 327 Rep Power: 0	LOL! So much for calm. I decided to patch my small network this morning. Very slow response from MS Windows Update, about 5-10 minutes for each machine. Lots of server busy and page cannot be found. It would be so nice if MS would create something similar to the Norton Corporate Antivirus Server where only one machine needs to do the updates and the others retrieve from there.

Feb 11, 2004, 07:28 PM	#4
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 327 Rep Power: 0	Thanks! I wasn't aware of that.

Feb 12, 2004, 05:52 AM	#9
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com 1) add this to the above -> /catalog/en/default.asp 2) or this -> /en/default.asp?corporate=true both links will take you to the Windows Update Catalog site.