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- From: "Dotcom Computers Ltd" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:30:51 -0000
In news:87vews6y9w.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Graham Murray <newspost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> Jim Howes <sewoh.mij@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Is there any particular reason that when I unpack and set up three
>> brand new Dell dual-xeon boxen, I have to wait $BIGNUM hours for
>> them to pull security updates from MS04-041 (December 14th *_2004_*)
>> forwards? (Compounded by the fact
>
> IMHO, it should be mandatory for all suppliers who ship computers with
> pre-installed software to either ship with all of the security patches
> current at the time of shipping already applied or to supply those
> patches on CD/DVD so that the new owner does not expose the system to
> vulnerabilities while downloading the patches from the Internet.
I had to rebuild a customers system this AM, after replacing a crashed Hard
Drive.
I inadvertently installed XP Home SP1 on the drive rather than SP2
Once all installed, I needed about 80MB of Windows Updates, before it would
let me install SP2.
SP2 was quoted at 150MB download, then it required a further 80MB download
of patches!!
I need to get hold of one of those SP2 standalone patch discs, I wonder if
Microsoft still have them.
One of my USP's is that any system I supply is patched to the most current
level I can make it at the time of delivery.
--?
Jason Russell
Dotcom-Computers Ltd
t: 01403 784340
f: 01403 786698
e: dotcom AT dotcom-computers.co.uk
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