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Re: What patches *must* I install?
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Re: What patches *must* I install?

  • To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
  • Subject: Re: What patches *must* I install?
  • From: marcSNIFF.CT-NET.DE
  • Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:13:59 +0000
  • In-Reply-To: <199803091134.LAA20842door.sniff.ct-net.de> from Russ at "Mar 9, 98 06:27:38 am"
  • Reply-To: marcSNIFF.CT-NET.DE
  • Sender: Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List <NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
"Hello!" to the NTBugtraq community.

As someone who has to work with german NT 4.0 I would like to add
my experience (or call it $0.02 ;)

Paul Leach "promised" a few days ago on the NTSecurity list that
he will push the production of non-usa hotfixes. So there is some
hope people outside the usa are able to buy a pentium soon
(AMD stock falling? ;)

It was Paul Leach too, who explained, why .dll's are language dependent.
But in practise some .dll's seem not to care about that.

So I installed the pentium fix (usa) on a german system. Lots of
HAL dll's but the (web)server is running now for a month or so without
any problems.

I have heard from a friend that you will run into trouble with
Mircosoft because this trick violates the service contract.
So beware ... (if you have a service contract)

And of course you do it on your own risk. Don't blame me if your
server is "absent" after a patch with language-aware dll's.
(this OS offers the real thrill, doesn't it?)


Regards, Marc
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