From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jan 22 18:58:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 91A5314A10; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:58:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF2C1CD67D; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:58:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Dan Seafeldt, AZ.COM System Administrator" Cc: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Update In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Dan Seafeldt, AZ.COM System Administrator wrote: > becomes a permanent thing running in the background. The Windows update > website does not seem to consider the timing of the posting of security > breach details or descriptions. The patches usually show up on Windows Update several days to weeks after Microsoft puts out the advisory, which is usually several weeks to months after the problem is first publicized. If we were to implement a system like this, I'm sure we could do better ;-) Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message