Order the Windows Security Update CD

Follow this link and order the Windows Security Update CD for *free*

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/security/protect/alert.mspx

Sorry for x-posting but thought it was highly helpful to everyone.

Need to have .Net passport to order. You can register when you order.

On Wed, 5 May 2004 09:44:46 +0100, "D.A.L." <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Follow this link and order the Windows Security Update CD for *free*
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/uk/security/protect/alert.mspx
>
>Sorry for x-posting but thought it was highly helpful to everyone.
>
>Need to have .Net passport to order. You can register when you order.
>

Did so, and it takes just under a month to arrive. Mine is dated
February 2004 but I am not aware of any later versions, are there any?

The CD is useful for those not on Broadband and for patching PCs that
have never used the update site but there are of course several major
patches that need to be applied post February 2004.

Personally I feel it is a CD that should be available at all computer
store check out locations rather than ISP installation discs.

David Bradley

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> On Wed, 5 May 2004 09:44:46 +0100, "D.A.L." <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >Follow this link and order the Windows Security Update CD for *free*
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/uk/security/protect/alert.mspx
> >
> >Sorry for x-posting but thought it was highly helpful to everyone.
> >
> >Need to have .Net passport to order. You can register when you order.
> >
>
> Did so, and it takes just under a month to arrive. Mine is dated
> February 2004 but I am not aware of any later versions, are there any?
>
> The CD is useful for those not on Broadband and for patching PCs that
> have never used the update site but there are of course several major
> patches that need to be applied post February 2004.
>
> Personally I feel it is a CD that should be available at all computer
> store check out locations rather than ISP installation discs.
>
> David Bradley
>
think how much that would cost microsoft all the time, the best thing
they could do is make sure that all net & magaines have them on their
cover discs

"David Bradley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Wed, 5 May 2004 09:44:46 +0100, "D.A.L." <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >Follow this link and order the Windows Security Update CD for *free*
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/uk/security/protect/alert.mspx
> >
> >Sorry for x-posting but thought it was highly helpful to everyone.
> >
> >Need to have .Net passport to order. You can register when you order.
> >
>
> Did so, and it takes just under a month to arrive. Mine is dated
> February 2004 but I am not aware of any later versions, are there any?

The latest version is dated February 2004 but only actually contains patches
up to October 2003 - thus a visit to Windows Update is essential after using
it... or you could wait for a new version, once Windows XP SP2 is released,
before asking for a cd..

Its also worth pointing out that the cd covers *all* MS OS's from Windows 98
onwards... not just Windows XP.

Regards
Sunil

On Wed, 5 May 2004 21:28:48 +0100, Adam Davies <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> On Wed, 5 May 2004 09:44:46 +0100, "D.A.L." <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Follow this link and order the Windows Security Update CD for *free*
>> >
>> >http://www.microsoft.com/uk/security/protect/alert.mspx
>> >
>> >Sorry for x-posting but thought it was highly helpful to everyone.
>> >
>> >Need to have .Net passport to order. You can register when you order.
>> >
>>
>> Did so, and it takes just under a month to arrive. Mine is dated
>> February 2004 but I am not aware of any later versions, are there any?
>>
>> The CD is useful for those not on Broadband and for patching PCs that
>> have never used the update site but there are of course several major
>> patches that need to be applied post February 2004.
>>
>> Personally I feel it is a CD that should be available at all computer
>> store check out locations rather than ISP installation discs.
>>
>> David Bradley
>>
>think how much that would cost microsoft all the time, the best thing
>they could do is make sure that all net & magaines have them on their
>cover discs

In response to your cost issue for Billy Goat, what springs to mind is
the number of AOL disks that are produced, without any effort I laid
my hands on five copies, not to mention the one that arrived in the
post yesterday and another that fell out of a magazine I purchased
last week, plus the copy that came with the new DELL machine that
arrived yeasterday. And you tell me that Microsoft can not afford to
do likewise with someone similar for the security patches. I don't
believe you!

David Bradley

> think how much that would cost microsoft all the time, the best thing
> they could do is make sure that all net & magaines have them on their
> cover discs

So why have MS refused permission for any cover mounted disk to carry patches and updates for XP?
(Source .net mag)

On Wed, 5 May 2004 21:28:48 +0100, in uk.telecom.broadband Adam Davies
<(E-Mail Removed)> strung together this:

>the best thing
>they could do is make sure that all net & magaines have them on their
>cover discs

They did, but in their infinite wisdom MS disallowed that practice.
--

SJW
A.C.S. Ltd.

In message <91dmc.2906$(E-Mail Removed)>, Mr
Cellophane <mrcellophane1@{yourtits}hotmail.com> writes
>
>> think how much that would cost microsoft all the time, the best thing
>> they could do is make sure that all net & magaines have them on their
>> cover discs
>
>So why have MS refused permission for any cover mounted disk to carry
>patches and updates for XP?
>(Source .net mag)

An XP update without the machine phoning home? Heavens. The end of
civilisation! The days when IE was carried on such CD-ROMs are over,
too. Now all you get is a stub program that phones home. Jf

"Mr Cellophane" <mrcellophane1@{yourtits}hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:91dmc.2906$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > think how much that would cost microsoft all the time, the best thing
> > they could do is make sure that all net & magaines have them on their
> > cover discs
>
> So why have MS refused permission for any cover mounted disk to carry
patches and updates for XP?
> (Source .net mag)

Appartantly, Microsoft have been having 2nd thoughts on this policy - expect
to see MS Service Packs etc reappear on magazines in a couple of months...

Regards
Sunil

"JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In message <91dmc.2906$(E-Mail Removed)>, Mr
> Cellophane <mrcellophane1@{yourtits}hotmail.com> writes
> >
> >> think how much that would cost microsoft all the time, the best thing
> >> they could do is make sure that all net & magaines have them on their
> >> cover discs
> >
> >So why have MS refused permission for any cover mounted disk to carry
> >patches and updates for XP?
> >(Source .net mag)
>
> An XP update without the machine phoning home? Heavens. The end of
> civilisation! The days when IE was carried on such CD-ROMs are over,
> too. Now all you get is a stub program that phones home. Jf

the disk does phone home if its allowed to if its not it does not.

One thing though is, it does change the home page to Microsoft's from whatever you had it.