MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Hope you've all seen this:
[url] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7832652.stm [/url]
and been here:
[url] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0D5F9B6E-9265-44B9-A376-2067B73D6A03&displaylang=en [/url]
and patched your computers!
(Maybe not Vista users though: not sure)
Just a thought...
This patch is downloaded as part of the automatic update.
I certainly would have the automatic update running each day, isn't this normal activity?
I should certainly hope so!
I certainly would have the automatic update running each day, isn't this normal activity?
Only if you're one of the 25% of home users using a legal copy thats not avoiding auto updates due to the copy protection / gen advantage issue 🙂
And had quite an effect on Sheffield NHS networks:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/sheffield_conficker/
It exploits lots of really poor practice on people's networks to spread:
- not bothering with updates
- not bothering with MS security bulletins (or not taking "out of band security update" seriously)
- weak passwords, especially for local admin accounts
- people having domain admin accounts for everyday use
- allowing USB storage including autorun
Anyone who's a home user who's been running auto updates (this was patched back in October) should be just fine. Still worth having decent passwords though.
[i]Only if you're one of the 25% of home users using a legal copy thats not avoiding auto updates due to the copy protection / gen advantage issue[/i]
I am proud of my pucker XP Pro license. It will keep me virus free anyway!
I used to have a corp key generator but it stopped working so I though £70 for an XP Pro license was money well spent!
Home users don't generally have a problem as most have Win Update on.
Companies who are slow to test & release updates could be stuffed!
[url= http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/virus/ ]Big names affected so far[/url]
Simon_G - the effect on Sheffield has been overstated.
I am proud of my pucker XP Pro license. It will keep me virus free anyway
funniest thing I have read all day - all it gives you is an OS full of holes and the vague hope that microsoft will get round to fixing them before you get done over.
On a Windows system an up to date AV is essential if not pull out the network connection.
I will sit here and be smug on Linux for a bit and forget to panic