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Microsoft Bug May Attract Big Worm

Posted by timothy on from the and-it's-a-big-'un dept.

daveq writes "Several sources report that a serious new Microsoft vulnerability has been found. Experts expect it to be exploited heavily."

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  1. Re:Why Navy rules.... by geekoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ANd I always thought it was because of tailhook... ;)

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  2. Re:Why Navy rules.... by budcub · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I work for a defense company that makes software for the Navy and we use Red Hat 6.2.

    Hasn't Red Hat stopped support of 6.2? Hmmmmm...

  3. Is there a Slashdot type site just for CODERS? by wackybrit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I rarely post offtopic, but because there's no where on Slashdot for 'free discussion', I figured I might as well (listen up editors, if we had a 'MetaSlashdot' there might be less off-topic posts).

    Is there a Slashdot style site specifically for coders? I like Slashdot, but as a coder I'm not so interested in reading about PDAs, politics, and stuff like that.

    I want stories about virtual machines, Perl, C++, people's attempts at writing compilers, discussion of the latest computer science theory.

    I'd love a site like that, yet I seem unable to find one. Does anyone know of something that'd fit the bill?

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  4. If you walk without rythm ... by Bobtree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    errr, sorry. So, the latest SciFi mini-series was pretty good huh? I wonder if they'll follow it up with another.

    But man, who know Christopher Walkin could dance like that?!

    Crazy stuff.

  5. Re:Why Navy rules.... by Corgha · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hasn't Red Hat stopped support of 6.2? Hmmmmm...

    Not until March 31st. :)
    http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/

    Of course, I didn't see an update to their 2.2 series kernels in the RHSA for the ptrace vulnerability...