[Outages-discussion] [outages] Download.windowsupdate.com

[Jeremy Chadwick]

(Moved to outages-discussion)

> It doesn't look like getting updates from the browser is supported.

If you want to "get updates" (KBs) from Microsoft directly using a web
browser and not Windows Update, then use the Microsoft Update Catalog:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx

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On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 02:25:56PM -0400, Nathan Coffren via Outages wrote:
> The www portion does not resolve, but http://download.windowsupdate.com
> resolves and redirects to Microsoft's FAQ. It doesn't look like getting
> updates from the browser is supported.
> 
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Chris Swingler via Outages <
> outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> > The WHOIS information points to Microsoft, the IP address resolves to
> > Microsoft's IP block, and the SSL cert was cut from Microsoft's CA, seems
> > legit to me.
> >
> > On May 10, 2017, at 1:08 PM, Sean Morgan via Outages <outages at outages.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Windowsupdate is not a legitimate website.
> >
> >
> > https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_
> > 1-windows_update/mrtexe-virus-and-windows-update-problems/
> > 1471f5ff-9395-4fd0-991c-a50a125d9941
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > On 5/10/2017 1:00 PM, Scott Voll via Outages wrote:
> >
> > Anyone else seeing issues with www.Download.windowsupdate.com
> > <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/>
> >
> > scott
> >
> >
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