[outages] Download.windowsupdate.com

Nathan Coffren coffrenn at gmail.com
Wed May 10 14:25:56 EDT 2017


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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