Re: which security hotfixs to implemet ?

["Craig Woodward" <secfreak () hotmail com>]

At the risk of sounding petulant, why keep Media player installed if there's 
no intention of using it?
Quite a few of the exploits detail whether they are exploitable if the 
application is present, even if not in use.  It would be best to read the 
details for each update to see if they apply to you.

Craig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juan B" <juanbabi () yahoo com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:16 AM
Subject: which security hotfixs to implemet ?


> Hi,
> I ran microsoft baseline security against our IIS web
> servers.
> the output ( for example) on some servers was that
> there are some critical updates related to windows
> media player which I need to implement ,my question
> is: Do I really need to implement fixes to
> applications that I dont use ( but still are installed
> on the server) on those servers (like windwos media
> player that we dont use on our web servers? ).
>
> thanks !
>
>
>
>
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