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| smokeape |
FYI, download security patch if you're running a Win2K platform like me....
| quote: | A computer worm disrupted the networks of U.S media organizations today, but has had no visible impact upon major web sites. The worm, which uses a vulnerability in Windows PnP to target Windows 2000 machines, knocked computers offline at CNN, ABC News and the New York Times. The damage appears to be limited to internal corporate networks, as the web sites of the U.S. Fortune 100 show no unusual outages, including the 18 companies in the index hosted on Windows 2000. Likewise, Britain's FTSE 100, which has 36 sites running on Win2K, shows no suspicious performance problems either.
Working exploits for new Windows vulnerabilities began appearing on the Internet last Thursday, just two days after the security holes were outlined in Microsoft's monthly security advisory. Over the weekend the Zotob worm appeared, compromising unpatched Windows 2000 machines.
Security firms Trend Micro and F-Secure reported new malware variants exploiting the PnP hole, while contributors to the Full Disclosure mailing list reported a worm as well. "Likely this is an isolated event, which became newsworthy because CNN got infected," noted the Internet Storm Center. "We do not see any new threats at this point. Zotob keeps mutating and finding new victims. As seen with prior TCP worms, it is reaching its peak around 3 days after the outbreak." |
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| davemolina |
I think we got here at Citibank too.
Last night they mentioned shutting down all systems to install a patch. |
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| jonze234 |
| i have a buddy that works at caterpillar and he told me that they were having problems with this. |
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| TigerClaw |
| I think the question would be, Who the hell still uses Win2k any more?, Heheh. |
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| PEZ68 |
| quote: | Originally posted by TigerClaw
I think the question would be, Who the hell still uses Win2k any more?, Heheh. |
A lot of people like me who think it's still better using 2K than XPKiddies |
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by PEZ68
A lot of people like me who think it's still better using 2K than XPKiddies |
but XP has the pretty colours that mr claw needs to live. heheh |
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| kr00t0n |
| Most businesses use win2k, or home users who dont have particularily powerful machines ;) |
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| gabor3000gt |
| And they are free, the server editions that is. |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by TigerClaw
I think the question would be, Who the hell still uses Win2k any more?, Heheh. |
I believe you once told me you never used Win2k ( I might be mistaken ).
You never experienced it's greatness so you could never understand.
It's one of the OS's that truly made me believe M$ still had it in them.
I also sincerely believe it's the most stable thing out there right now and it's not as power hungry as XP. |
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| smokeape |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
I believe you once told me you never used Win2k ( I might be mistaken ).
You never experienced it's greatness so you could never understand.
It's one of the OS's that truly made me believe M$ still had it in them.
I also sincerely believe it's the most stable thing out there right now and it's not as power hungry as XP. |
I always use the lowest level Microsoft will support. They will no longer support Win 98, so I switched to Win 2K. Windows is just a platform to launch software. The lower you go, the less memory and RAM it takes to run it. I don't need fancy just to start my computer and log onto the Internet, nor launch MS Office or other software.
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| smokeape |
| quote: | Originally posted by smokeape
I always use the lowest level Microsoft will support. They will no longer support Win 98, so I switched to Win 2K. Windows is just a platform to launch software. The lower you go, the less memory and RAM it takes to run it. I don't need fancy memory hogs with bells and whistles just to start my computer and log onto the Internet, nor launch MS Office or other software.
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