full-disclosure - Unofficial Microsoft patches help hackers, not security

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Date: Wed Jan  4 21:52:09 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Unofficial Microsoft patches help hackers,
	not security

> This trend does nothing to prove netdev's post however. The situtation
> that MW shows here, happens all the time. How many people are infected
> with SDBot, but then apply the correct Microsoft patch to fix the hole.
> They are still infected....the patch being applied after the fact has no
> real effect on the security of the system.

Not to mention all the folks that installed the patch (including those 
that used automated roll-out tools) but didn't reboot the computer.

FWIW, the same is true of the patch to gdi32 and shimgvw.

/mike.