Re: CRIME Perspective on Criticisms leveled at Microsoft

From: Seth Arnold (sarnold@private)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 12:27:06 PDT

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    On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:01:27AM -0700, Robert S. Jacobsen wrote:
> The Live Update program checks for patches and such for all the Symantec
> programs installed, virus signature updates among them.  The manually
> downloaded file doesn't include those patches.  I would love to know a
> little more about those update files as the Live Update program reports a
> very different file size for the signature update then the manually
> downloaded file.  Forever curious, that me.

Last time I looked at Live Update, they also sold a proxy that one could
use to prevent several hundred machines from requesting the updates at
once. I would hope this proxy could also be used to simplify installing
patches.

Contact your sales agent for details.

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