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Even certification isn't always enough
The problem with releasing Microsoft's patches ASAP is that you can't guarantee you won't be trading a headache for an upset stomach, as they used to say in the old commercials.

We have a very short certification period for MS patches here, but even so we occasionally get stung by problems created by the patch. For example: after blowing out MS04-011 to our entire enterprise, we wound up with nearly 1000 NT systems with disabled mice and keyboards and/or BSODs because of an incompatibility with Microsoft's own drivers (see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;835732 for the gory details).

So system admins are often caught between Scylla and Charybdis, so to speak. If they don't push a patch out soon enough a worm gets in. Push it out too soon and some systems may be disabled. The real issue is Microsoft's inability to come up with either secure software or patches that have been properly regression tested.
Posted by: the_doge   Posted on: 05/05/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Companies need to validate patches, first  Xunil_Sierutuf | 05/03/04
I understand  toadlife | 05/03/04
Even certification isn't always enough  the_doge | 05/05/04
Been there  Sensai | 05/03/04
So your company is nuts....  computer_man | 05/03/04
When you need that new wonder drug...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 05/04/04
... and they don't install a firewall? Great!  AxleMunshine | 05/04/04
Installing a firewall  Sensai | 05/05/04
Thank the computer Gods!  DragonBRockin | 05/03/04
Re: Thank the computer Gods!  issthatso | 05/03/04
And that is why MS should be made to recall there OS  Squawkbox | 05/03/04
yea... you first  JoeMama_z | 05/03/04
Nope don't think so  Squawkbox | 05/03/04
Well that figures  cjconstant | 05/04/04
There has to be some lawer that needs money  boatelc | 05/03/04
see traffic in our logs  bchesmer | 05/04/04
THATS RIGHT!!!!  DragonBRockin | 05/03/04
Why Is He Doing This?  dr praetorius | 05/03/04
Quick! Pay for another made-up TCO study!  Chad_z | 05/03/04
Research Firms Created Worm!  Da-Man | 05/03/04
Wow, antivirus companies are just as healthy as can be  FilledOut | 05/03/04
Not too hard  Trentito | 05/03/04
MS most popular myth  voiceofreason_z | 05/03/04
Actually  PmAc_z | 05/04/04
"nice convenient lie" eh?  Test Subject | 05/04/04
It's not a lie - just a half-truth  the_doge | 05/05/04
so far....  JoeMama_z | 05/03/04
same here  toadlife | 05/03/04
not the same here  PlatformAgnostic | 05/03/04
Not the same here either  Uralbas | 05/04/04
If you really want to help them...  AxleMunshine | 05/04/04
Ahhhhh, The Microsoft XPerience...  Plain Logic | 05/03/04
Where's Mike Cox  bchesmer | 05/04/04
Old News  PmAc_z | 05/04/04
Ya think???  DragonBRockin | 05/04/04
nah  PA-ITGuy | 05/04/04
Microsoft XP soon to be EX-Microsoft!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 05/04/04
Is it really microsoft's fault?  SteveG123 | 05/04/04
so how do you  hipparchus2000 | 05/04/04
I don't profess to be an expert but......  SteveG123 | 05/04/04
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M$ Crapware?  SteveG123 | 05/04/04
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drm is about a different kind of security  V Sanders | 05/07/04
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