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List:       focus-virus
Subject:    Re: The Register - "Microsoft mulls patch distribution with AV  up dates"
From:       "Konfetti2000" <konfetti2000 () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2001-10-12 15:35:09
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From: "Andreas Marx" <amarx@gega-it.de>

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> ....... Additionally, they wanted to burn the full SP2 and
> all pre-SP3 security patches (including ISAPI against Code Red) on it. To
> make it round, all IE versions in most recent versions.
> 
> Microsoft explicitily forbids these magazines to do so. They were only
> allowed to burn IE on it, but no Windows-related patches or SPs... up to
> now, I don't know why. I thought, this would be a nice idea. And it would
> save a lot of download time and costs...

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Simple answer to why.... to avoid the danger of shipping virus-infected patches around.

That is known to have happend before, eg. with PC-games :((

/Daniell

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