Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own

MondoMor writes "Microsoft's forgot to patch some of its own servers to protect it from the months-old vulnerability exploited by the Slammer Worm, reports C|Net. Oops. Apparently Redmond's network was hit pretty hard. Just goes to show that no matter who you are, you'd better keep your apps patched." Update: 01/29 01:59 GMT by T : And if you're running systems which might be affected, take note: whitehorse writes "The Microsoft KB article for the Slammer patch found here has an incorrect URL for 'Download the patch' referring to KB Q316333 which is only a handle leak fix. The real patch may be found later in the article."

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Just goes to show that no matter who you are...

[thrillbert]

... You'd be better off moving to Linux on your critical enterprise servers.

I don't think MySQL is susceptible to this worm... ;)

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Re:SQL Server

[Mikeytsi]

say Windows 98 and NT 4.x will be entering "Non-supported phase" after June this year, Windows 2K even earlier, March.

March of 2005, bozo. Try reading the web sites you reference before posting.

Re:To clarify some Myths about Slammer

[rosewood]

I just want to add (since no one has answered yet) that I dont propose ANY of the above to be true. Like I said, I dont work with SQL servers so I have NO FUCKING CLUE, Im just re-hashing the rumours and I want to know what is real and what is NOT.