Another point is that corporates need to plan the deployment of any patches to make sure they apply them in the knowledge of the effect they have on other systems.
That said, integration between virus updates and security updates for consumers has its merits. when people are encouraged to update their protection against the Nimda worm, for example, they would also be reminded that it exploits an Outlook vulnerability, for which Microsoft has issued a patch.
Of course for this to work Microsoft patches would always need to work as advertised.
Another point is that corporates need to plan the deployment of any patches to make sure they apply them in the knowledge of the effect they have on other systems.
That said, integration between virus updates and security updates for consumers has its merits. when people are encouraged to update their protection against the Nimda worm, for example, they would also be reminded that it exploits an Outlook vulnerability, for which Microsoft has issued a patch.
Of course for this to work Microsoft patches would always need to work as advertised.