Re: Massive Potential Abuse of Windows Machines Via Update

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"BarneyB" <BarneyB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
[...]
Why do I think this you ask yourself? Well I have noticed that I am not
getting my automatic updates at the correct time!

Take for example the January Patch Tuesday Release.

My XP machine didn't update until the Thursday. When I looked at the KB
number of the update I had just received it was not the one it should have
been. Indeed the one I got (KB951748) was meant to have been released in July!

KB951748 (MS08-037) has not been delivered to Windows XP SP3(!) systems
since around November 2008 til 13th January 2009 due to a detection issue
from Windows/Auto Update. It has been released in July 2008 and been offerd
to Windows XP SP3 also since 8th July 2008 til the detection issue occured.
Systems which have been set up from around November 2008 to January 2009
have not been offered KB951748 from WU/AU. To those systems KB951748 is
beeing offered again after the detection issue has been resolved.

See also the following thread in this very newsgroup:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=eQou4RgMJHA.3496@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bye,
Freudi
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