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RE: Office Patch false postives?

Subject: RE: Office Patch false postives?
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:56:41 -0400
You need to verify some of the files to make sure they really updated.  We
have had a lot of problems since late 2003 with MS patches not updating all
the files they should.  As a result, they scan vulnerable, though MS tools
say they are patched.

MS tools check the registry to see if you ran the patch.  They don't check
the files to make sure they were updated.  We've proven this many times by
comparing scan results to our PatchLink databases.  PL also checks the files
themselves.

-----Original Message-----
From: nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org [mailto:nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org]
On Behalf Of net sec
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:13 PM
To: nessus@list.nessus.org
Subject: Office Patch false postives?

Nessus is reporting MANY of our workstations as missing MS06-039 in addition
to some MS03-039 although both MBSA and SMS report that these workstations
are patched.  In addition, when attempting to update via Microsoft Updates -
no patches needed.  I don't want to dismiss as a false positive without
getting some feedback from others who may have also seen this.
FYI - both of these patches are related to MSOffice.

Thanks for any feedback -


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