Dear Microsoft
Tuesday, April 15, 2003Release Early and Whatever
Has anybody else noticed that the release dates and the timestamps on Microsoft's hotfixes don't match up?
bash-2.05a$ ls -ltr *[sSpP]4* -rw-r--r-- 1 wcox wcox 194600 Jul 16 2002 Q320206_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 wcox wcox 208360 Jul 16 2002 Q321599_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 234368 Jul 17 2002 Q324380_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 219296 Jul 24 2002 Q326830_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 247488 Jul 25 2002 Q326886_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 337544 Aug 5 2002 q323172_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 871904 Aug 16 2002 Q324096_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 896960 Sep 11 2002 Q323255_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 2750240 Sep 17 2002 Q327696_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 196200 Oct 2 2002 Q329834_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 1194096 Nov 1 17:30 Q329170_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 3836528 Nov 1 20:03 Q328310_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 7590000 Nov 13 20:57 Q329115_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 1435760 Nov 20 18:54 Q331953_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 373360 Nov 21 18:56 Q810833_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 414736 Mar 14 23:53 Q815021_W2K_sp4_x86_EN.EXE -rw-rw-r-- 1 wcox wcox 2424336 Mar 17 22:42 Q816093_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe
Take MS03-010 (Q331953) for example. The page that links to the download notes that the filename is Q331953_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe, that the size is 1403 KB, and that it was published on March 26, 2003. Yet the file that I picked up is dated November 20, 2002. And it was signed on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:54:21 PM. Does somebody need to synchronize his clock?
I got all of those files with wget, from the various places linked to in the security bulletins. Course, now I'm having trouble authenticating to SAMBA, but that's a whole 'nother bucket of worms.
7:55:36 PM # Google It!
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