[Timesink]

Probably not. This DCOM exploit is not known to affect Win9x (including WinME.) It is known to affect any version of Windows using the NT Kernel. This includes WinNT 3.51, 4.0 Workstation and Server, Win2K (all versions), WinXP and Win2003.

Needless to say, the "mainstream" news media has been universally reporting that the exploit affects "essentially all versions of Windows."

Aren't something like 30% of PC owners still running Win98? This sort of piss-poor journalism can cause these people a lot of grief as they run around looking for patches to their systems that are not needed and, indeed, do not exist.

[cashion]

Needless to say, the "mainstream" news media has been universally reporting that the exploit affects "essentially all versions of Windows."

Aren't something like 30% of PC owners still running Win98? This sort of piss-poor journalism can cause these people a lot of grief as they run around looking for patches to their systems that are not needed and, indeed, do not exist.

IIRC, this exploit affects all versions of Windows dating back to Win95, except for Windows Millenium. I think they got it right this time, unless I'm thinking of one of the other dozens of remote exploits for Microsoft OSes.

[Knitebane]

Aren't something like 30% of PC owners still running Win98? This sort of piss-poor journalism can cause these people a lot of grief as they run around looking for patches to their systems that are not needed and, indeed, do not exist.

Far be it from me to stick up for presstitutes, but I have to give them a pass on this one.

Microsoft issued a press release that was rather vague about what versions were affected. It took some digging to get to the truth.