Category Archives: Security Patches

Script for scanning Windows Vista to determine which Service Packs have been installed

I needed a way to check which Security patches were installed on Windows Vista machines. Now on XP I used to use the command wmic qfe list , but the problem with this command is that it was never any … Continue reading

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Bash script to find the occurrences of MS KB patch# in a file

The script below can be used to check if certain patches, listed in one column in a file “B” occur in file “A”. This script can be used to process the output of the script in the previous post: Script … Continue reading

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