Service pack for win2000 has been released....

Win2k-sp4

 

What gaping security holes are being patched this time I wonder?

One is an AD vulnerability I think.

Roger

 

and what new gaping security holes will replace the old ones?

 

And who's brave enough to deploy on it a critical production server straight away?

 

Whose waiting on SP4a?

 

It ludicrous when you don't have enough confidence in what is supposedly an improvement to deploy it.

Then again how do you weigh up the consequences of being vulnerable to attack compared to downtime to repair a server screwed by a new patch?

Roger

 

No way I'd deploy at the moment. I'd test in the lab environment first and then deploy it

 

A REPORT ON W2K news points out that Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000, released at the end of last week, has already got seven fixes for the fix that fixed hundreds of bugs in the operating system.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10331

 

Just installed it at home.
Saved me downloading 30 odd other updates by doing this.