RE: CRIME Perspective on Criticisms leveled at Microsoft

From: Dorning, Kevin E - DI-2 (kedorning@private)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 15:15:55 PDT

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    Live update, depending on the version of NAV you have, will pull either the
    whole update file, or only the portion of the file that is different from
    what you already have.  Internally we use live update from our own
    liveupdate server.  On systems that have NAV7.X in managed mode this works
    very well.  It gives us a chance to verify the updates before implementing
    them.
    
    K.D>
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Seth Arnold [mailto:sarnold@private]
    Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:27 PM
    To: Robert S. Jacobsen
    Cc: crime@private
    Subject: Re: CRIME Perspective on Criticisms leveled at Microsoft
    
    
    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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