http://www.microsoft.com/...03-039.asp



What You Should Know About Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039 (824146)
Security Update for Microsoft Windows


Why We Are Issuing This Update
A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise a computer running Microsoft® Windows® and gain complete control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft.

Products Affected by This Update
Windows NT® 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server™ 2003

Products Not Affected by This Update
Windows Millennium (Windows Me)
Note Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Windows 95 also are not affected by this issue. However, these products are no longer supported. Users of these products are strongly encouraged to upgrade to later versions.

crazyhorse said:

am i the only one that finds it hard to read crazy's posts? the font..the bleeding of the sentences...WOW!! my eyes hurt..

and oh oh oh...i got my upgrade!!! i rock!!

Thanks for the information...
Yea!! I have Windows me.
But I also have Norton protection...which has done a great job so far.

I have this strange feeling that if another OS was #1, millions of hackers around the world would be digging for and finding just as many exploits in it as well.

And any time they found one it would make the 6 o clock news.

Anyone without a firewall and an antivirus application, and who fails to keep their system updated, deserves to have their computers hacked to hell.

I work in an office full of people who clam up every time I tell them they need to run Windows Update, and I ultimately have to do it for them each time.

You wouldn't drive a car without knowing what you were doing, why do we let clueless people use computers???

I hate these fucking warnings:

“New virus called the big nasty virus designed by Microsoft boffins and nerds to only affect windows 2000 era platforms. Will not affect old platforms (that are shit anyway) and of course will not affect windows millennium (so buy it). This is until we bring out windows quintillion when we will upgrade to big nasty virus II which will then infect millennium users, suckers”

Yeah that 'Sobig' shit been tryin to do a thang on this pc.
there's a couple of others (some kind of worm) but the names escape me.

Thank heavens I am still using Windows 98SE. Seems to be the most stable platform for my music so stuff the rest, y'all can get hacked 2 buggery!!!



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Tom said:

Actually, it is MUCH more difficult to attack Mac OS X, Linux or any of the other Unix OSes out there.

You have to wonder sometimes if these "updates" don't install something so the government or whoever can keep track of the users and what they are doing. Before you say that's horsecrap, it has been done before to catch a family of kids(the oldest was 15) who took over a house for a day.
They gave them some updated and was able to keep track of their keystrokes. That could tell them where the oldest(and mastermind) was in the house at the time. It worked!

Another plug for Mac's !

well, you know, being way technologically behind has really paid off lately. i still have Windows 98, and all of this shit from the last several weeks has completely passed me by

CtheUncanny said:

took over a house for a day?


was it, like, a hostage situation? or a robbery? or were they just partying in somebody's house while the family was on vacation?

AaronMaximus said:

Don't remember the details, but a bunch of kids(brothers and sisters took over the house. I don't remember if they killed the parents or what, but they had a gun and would not let the police enter.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

I know, does he have stock in the company?

CtheUncanny said:

How is it a "plug for Mac's (sic)" in the first place? I said that it is much harder to write viruses that attack ANY UNIX OS... I listed Mac OS X, Linux, etc. Mac OS X is not the only UNIX out there by any stretch of the imagination, thus the post could not be seen as a "plug for Mac's (sic)" in any way.

IceNine said:

It was seen that way by at least two people and i would be willing to bet a few more than that :LOL:

i've got windows 2000 nt...thing with my pooter is that it is very limited on memory. it's a hand-me-down pooter i got from a friend, it has this webcam program that you can't get rid of unless you have the installation cd that came with the camera...i don't have it! i've downloaded firewalls/anti-virus software on it before, but it always either eats up the remainin memory on my pooter or fucks it up somehow.

i downloaded one from symantec a couple months back--woulda worked really well, if my pooter had more memory. it wuz a bitch and a half uninstallin that shit, too...took about a week to get it off of there.

CtheUncanny said:

:LOL:

Muse was kidding... :LOL:

Since I specified ANY UNIX in my post, only an easily confused individual would think that I was promoting anything specific and since Mac OS X is not the only UNIX OS, it stands to reason that I was not promoting it over any other UNIX OS out there.

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

nevermind
[This message was edited Thu Sep 11 18:27:15 PDT 2003 by AaronMaximus]

Just so some people won't get confused, names of some popular UNIX incarnations follow:

Solaris
AIX
BSD
OS X
Linux
Red Hat
HP-UX
Yellow Dog
NetBSD
TRU64
FreeBSD

:LOL:

Those are the ones that I could think of at the moment.

IceNine said:

You have me there my intelligence can come into question sometimes I can remember a time when i thought you were a cool person. :LOL: I was dumb as a rock for that.

IceNine said:

90+ percent of the orger here probably use one of two systems. Can you guess which two?? :LOL: