[sklyarov-chicago] [OT]Are you patched?

[Michael Cannon]

Just wait.

XP is all the bad W2K code with naked sockets and a
pre-SP2 code-base.

See Cringeley's last two posts on his site at PBS.org

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/

If I were a conspiracy nut, I 'd believe him.

Mike
Got Patch?  Get it!  STOP Code Red!
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/security/topics/codeptch.asp
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--- Larry Garfield <lgarfiel@students.depaul.edu>
wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2001 11:08, Michael Cannon
> wrote:
> 
> > This worm variant has been corrected and will
> spread
> > faster, find more hosts and cause more damage.  It
> is
> > remote controlled.  If you run ANY version of W2K
> or
> > NT 4, get the patch, take your box offline, PATCH
> THE
> > SUCKER, reboot your box...it takes 5 minutes,
> without
> > problems.  
> 
> I needed to install the SP2 upgrade in order to
> install the Code Red patch.  
> The SP2 upgrade hosed my system all on its own.  I
> was able to rebuild it 
> with the Recover utility on the install disks, tried
> again, and it's hosed 
> again.  I'm going to spend today wiping that box and
> reinstalling it.  Code 
> Red got me without even reaching my box.  Thank you
> very much you $*&^$* in 
> Redmond!
> 
> I'm back to Mandrake-only yet again and learning new
> appreciation of KMail.
> 
> --Larry Garfield
> 
> 
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