Security Update for CAPICOM - BAD detection logic "Eric" <youngec[ at ]hotmail.com> 5/15/2007 4:01:09 PM It appears that the May "Security Update for CAPICOM" is being detected as needed on Windows XP sp1 machines. I'm confused because I thought MS discontinued release of updates for Windows XP sp1 (?). I believe the detection logic is at fault here. The download page at MS (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=CA930018-4A66-4DA6-A6C5-206DF13AF316&displaylang=en) correctly lists the update as applying to Windows XP SP2, not SP1. -Eric

Re: Security Update for CAPICOM - BAD detection logic Harry Johnston <harry[ at ]scms.waikato.ac.nz> 5/16/2007 12:32:17 AM Eric wrote: [Quoted Text] > It appears that the May "Security Update for CAPICOM" is being detected as > needed on Windows XP sp1 machines. I'm confused because I thought MS > discontinued release of updates for Windows XP sp1 (?). I believe the > detection logic is at fault here. Arguably the detection logic should check that the update is supported on the target machine. On the other hand, wouldn't this mean there were never any applicable updates? This behaviour means that you have a choice if you have machines with an unsupported OS version; you can remove them from WSUS, or you can tolerate having unsupported updates installed. So it might well be deliberate. Harry.