Blaster Form and windows Update

My two cents on this story with Blaster worm:

Why, when I choose Windows Update from the start menu, and asked for the latest updates, the patch for Blaster worn doesn't come in the Critical Updates ?
And it doesn't appear at all !

Is it not one the reason why a lot of users didn't have their machines patched properly ?

I just try with a laptop I don't use often and it's the same, nothing tell me about this patch in the critical updates !

 

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  • Did you have a any problems with the RPC service crashing yet? And do you automatically download the latest updates?



    If so, then you probably have the patch for some time already, because it was issued July 16.

  • As I said in my post I tried with a laptop I don't use often, without automatic updates, because it's not usually connected, and I surely didn't since June, and asked for Windows Update from the Start Menu.



    I didn't see anything regarding a critical update, so of course because I know the situation I went to MSDN to download the patch.



    So it's quite scary to see thhis behaviour when you address this issue with non techies users

  • See if you have any 'deferred updates' by going to the system control panel, click on automatic update and look if the button is highlighted.



    Second, go back to windows update and View Installation History and see if you did already install it?

  • Did you click the "View Installation History" link on the Windows Update page to make sure that it hadn't already been installed?



    I didn't remember installing this particular patch on any of my machines, and no critical updates were showing, so I viewed the history and sure enough, there it was.

  • Which one it's supposed to be on the History, or what date ?



    On the Laptop I didn't updated since ages, so the last update is from March !



    Of course I did it now.

  • In the Description column of the Installation History, look for something containing "823980". For my machines running XP, the following shows up - "Security Update for Windows XP (823980)".

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