Reply to post: Re: "Peer-to-peer patch distribution over the LAN"

Windows 10 April 2018 Update lands today... ish

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Re: "Peer-to-peer patch distribution over the LAN"

"Now waiting for news that blackhats have found a 0-day and are plonking malware into the update system that gets distributed far and wide and auto-installed, courtesy of Microsoft's "bandwidth saving" measures."

Not likely - that's why there is still 10% of traffic remaining after doing this - all catalogues, packages and signatures are still checked with Microsoft - its only the binary blobs that are cached.

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