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Old 10-22-2005, 02:05 AM
Dazz
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Default Re: Security fears over MS October patches...

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:41:38 -0500, Winged <Winged@nofollow.com>
wrote:

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>You need to check your subscriptions. M$ went through some major changes
>in the alert notification dept.
>
>Their new services are good at not only alerting you to new security
>issues remediation and patch issues as well as revisions on old patches.
>
>I get 3 to 4 mails a week from M$ on their security notifications.
>Their security notification service now is far better than it once was.
>
>I am not a M$ fan but they have made major strides in their security
>notifications. Their RSS feed is also very useful for linking to
>current security issues for reference(I find this very interesting as
>Firefox supports RSS natively and IE does not...go figure).
>
>This does not mean you should not also watch the Secunia and SANS and
>other RSS feeds as well.
>
>I have to give M$ credit for making vast improvements in keeping me
>informed of M$ acknowledged problems workarounds and patches.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx
>
>The following page for the various alert notifications and RSS feeds.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/default.mspx#EZD


Well, the interesting thing is that all the other M$ bulletins that I
have subscribed to, keep coming, but the SMS alerts for some reason
just stopped (quite a few months ago).

The RSS feed is good though.

Dazz

>Winged



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