Posted on 12/24/2004 5:33:21 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
This should give everyone a merry Christmas.
ping
bump
I think they began with the security holes and just built an operating system around them.
Gives me more incentive to try out Linspire.
These exploits have been known for a while. If you keep your machines patched and up to date, you won't have any problems. Exploits like these are in EVERY OS and application. Most are not widely exploited until well after the flaws are published, once the script kiddies get their hands on the right code. It's the ones that aren't widely known and published that you have to worry about.
Kindly provide links showing:
1) That these exploits were known in the community before Tuesday
and, if you would:
2) That available Microsoft patches will protect against them.
Continuing with an issue I have with one of my boxes, Knoppix has done allot to narrow things down.
MERRY CRISTMAS!!!
I bought an iMac G5 last month so I no longer have to worry about this sort of crap, except that I'm spending this week updating the Dells that my family has brought to me. Ugh. Why can't everyone just get a Mac so we can stop worry about these things.
I'm trying Firefox right now. Seems faster, on a dial up, than IE.
Have had a headache over this issue during the week on a website.
I guess, in a way, XP SP2 is a "patch" that makes XP invulnerable, but that was probably by chance, and doesn't help 2k users.
Being on dialup, any little bit helps. I used to be on dial up I know lol.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-028.mspx
Please note the initial date of this patch is sept 14,2004
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-031.mspx
Please note the initial date of this patch is Oct 12, 2004
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-032.mspx
Please note the initial date of this patch is Oct 12, 2004
I know some people don't know too much about computer security so take it from one who deals with it on a daily basis...The patches are out there long before the exploits are "in the wild". Apperently it was a slow news day for Ziff Davis and Yahoo.
PS...Try windows update (tools/windowsupdate in IE). It works well for people that aren't "in the know".
It's true, I have been retired from the senior I.T. security position in a major corporation for 5 years.
But I still know enough to tell when someone is trying to pull a fast one.
Those are different vulnerabilities, son.
People "in the know" don't use IE in the first place, son.
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