full-disclosure - How to patch your systems (was Re: DCOM RPC exploit)

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: How to patch your systems (was Re: DCOM RPC exploit) 

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:08:06 EDT, zorkshin@...pabay.rr.com said:
> If you use Active Directory, why not assign the patch package to all
> computers? Shouldn't this be quite easy ?

Yeah.. You assign the patch package, push it out - and find out that the
patch doesn't actually *make* it to all the machines because of the issue
identified in the KB article.  That's the *POINT*.
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