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HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity
cbrandtbuffalo writes "The Department of Homeland Security has posted this advisory about an impending attack on MS systems. This RPC attack has already been seen in some localized systems, but may spread as unpatched computers are exploited. Some of the national news like CNN are running stories too."
Linux?
:(
Are you Loonies kidding?
Please tell me why a Windows user that is using state of the art
software and hardware to it's limit, would be interested in
downgrading his system just to run Linux?
Why?
The computing world is headed toward multimedia in a big way and Linux
is so far behind the curve it's pathetic.
Sure Pixar generates it's wire frame models using Linux, but it's
pretty said when Linux users can't even view the trailers to Pixar
movies because they are Windows/Mac only formats.
What about iTunes?
Any mp3 programs like Cooledit out there for Linux?
DVD copy for Linux?
Nope.
Linux is a fucking joke.
Linux is difficult, if not impossible to install on common hardware
and even when it IS installed, it just sucks because nothing works.
View common web pages?
Linux falls flat on it's face.
In fact many Linux tutorial websites actually use Windows media player
format files and Linux can't view them.
Now that is real smart
Waste time with Linux?
Risk being put out of business when SCO wins the suit?
Not me.
I deep sixed Linux a long time ago because it sucks.
I'm not Seth.
Yawn. Looked like any other Microsoft security advisory. DCOM isn't new. Neither is this security threat.
When will people learn?
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
expoit here
why not, i got karma to burn...
Yes, please instruct Linux weenies everywhere to go over and change the configuration of "non-geek"'s computers. Please, oh Linux gods, save us impoverished Windows users from the horrors you speak of by messing with our personal boxes. Or wait, I have a better idea:
KEEP THE F*CK AWAY FROM MY MACHINE.
It was so easy for me to patch this the day it came out. I just leave the AutoUpdate feature on "Download and ask before install", then review the critical updates and install them as they come in. Simple enough.
When will you linux users ever learn?
(In actuality, this has the potential to hurt a lot of people, undoubtedly because they will buy into the FUD and have auto-update disabled. Thanks a lot, linux community, for spreading FUD to people who would otherwise be protected already.)
i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
Let's face facts. Arabs are a shifty, guiltless and guilefull group of folks who will stab you in the back any chance they can get! But are they smart enough to write code? Hardly! Let's not forget where computer technology started, people. The USofA! And think about it, Al Qaeda have hated the US for so much for so long, if they were smart enough to understand technology don't you think they would've tried something like this by now? They are not smart enough to be of any real threat when it comes to technology.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
wheee! internet worms are fun!
quick! someone re-release SQL Slammer! and code red! and all our buddies locked away in cyber-jail!
wheeeeeeeee.....
(runs to public library)
Nice. You obviously don't work for a living.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou