[16713] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-063)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Boyce, Nick)
Mon Sep 11 17:11:59 2000
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:28:25 +0100
Reply-To: "Boyce, Nick" <nick.boyce@EDS.COM>
From: "Boyce, Nick" <nick.boyce@EDS.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
On 9th.Sept.2000, Justin Lintz asked :
> Since your on the topic of not being able to download patches, I still
have
> not been able to download the IIS Hotfix checking tool, all i get is 404
> errors. Anyone experiencing the same?
Yes, we are. I actually emailed this to Bugtraq (unapproved, so didn't
appear) and to Microsoft themselves (<secure@microsoft.com>), on Monday
4th.Sept.2000 :
>> we've just released a new tool that
>> will help administrators ensure that their servers are up to date on
>> all IIS 5.0 security patches. The tool, called HFCheck, is available
>> for download at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools.asp.
>
> A) Unfortunately, I see the web page, but on clicking the download link :-
> HTTP Error 404
> 404 Not Found
[...]
> B) Can we have a version of this tool for IIS 4.0 please ?
and later that day Microsoft replied to me :
> Thanks for your email. We are aware of the broken link and
> have asked our web team to correct the page. Due to the
> US holiday - this may not occur until sometime on Tuesday.
>
> Once we have received feedback from this version (IIS4), we
> will look to incorporate the feedback into this tool (or similar)
> for IIS4 and other applications.
(PS: I took "feedback from this version (IIS4)" to mean "... (IIS5)" in that
last paragraph)
Nick
EDS Healthcare, Bristol, UK
