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Posted by keith on August 24, 2005, 8:51 pm
Please log in for more thread options Microsoft say the following:
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MBSA and Windows Update (WU) analyze systems in different ways. WU for
instance only carries critical updates for the Windows operating system,
whereas MBSA will report missing security updates for the Windows operating
system and other Microsoft products such as SQL Server.
There are also cases where security updates are re-released, such as
MS02-008 and MS02-009. MBSA will always ensure that you have the latest
version of the update installed on your system. If you have the original
version of the MS02-008 or MS02-009 update, MBSA will indicate that the
update is not installed, since a newer release is available. However,
Windows Update may not indicate that a newer version is available since it
may be looking for different elements on the system to identify if this
update is present or not. Microsoft is working to resolve this inconsistency
so that MBSA, Windows Update, Microsoft Software Update Services, and SMS
security patch management will all use the same rules for determining the
presence of an update on Windows systems. This will ensure consistency for
all customers with the tool that best meets their needs. In the mean time,
users are encouraged to view the security bulletin for those updates that
they may have installed in the past that MBSA reports as missing to ensure
they indeed have the most recent version.
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See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsaqa.mspx or
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsa2/qa.mspx for more.
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Cheers
Keith
> How is it that I get two totally different security reports from MS Update
> and from MSBSA? I just don't understand this! I don't know which one to
> trust and to go by.
>
>
> Here are the results form MS Update:
>
> High Priority(0) Software, Optional(0)
> Hardware, Optional (1)
> No high -priority updates for your computer are available.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Here are the results form Microsoft Baseline Security Analysis:
>
> Office Updates 1 update is missing.
> SQL 1 critical security updates are missing. 1 products are
> using a service pack not at the latest version or have other Server/MSDE
> warnings.
> MSXML 1 products are using a service pack not at the latest
> version or have other warnings.
> Windows 1 security updates could not be confirmed.
>
>
> Mike B.
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