Steven Bink send words that many corporations face major risks because repackaged apps are ignored by Microsoft patches

Many of your corporate customers are repackaging their applications for automated deployment. Repackaging consists of taking the software publisher's setup executable and "capturing" the installation, which is then compiled into MSI format. Both of the major vendors who provide repackaging software, Wise Solutions and Installsheild, both include a conflict management applet within their suite. Their solution to managing conflicts is to isolate the normally shared support dll and ocx files into the application folder. The Microsoft shared files are commonly isolated into these application folders. When this application is then installed and run, the associated dll and ocx files are then run in memory. Each successive isolated application on a system will load it's own dll and ocx file set into memory as its run.

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