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WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently

Posted by jamie on from the and-fix-your-software dept.

Precisely nineteen months ago, Bill Gates sent out a memo to employees (and the press) announcing that security was Microsoft's number-one priority. Today, about a hundred readers have submitted the news that Microsoft.com went down last night. And now, the company has "extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com (future updates will come from a different domain). All this because of some Microsoft worm that triggers at midnight. Related news: Windows Update says you're protected, but maybe you're not; WU.com briefly ran Linux, heh; worm variant with clever "anatomical term."

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  1. Next Week.. by msblaster.exe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry next week there will be another memo with the URL for the new update

    1. Re:Next Week.. by Ledskof · · Score: 5, Funny

      secured permanently? So they unplugged it from the network to finally get that C2 security level eh?

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    2. Re:Next Week.. by cravey · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder why they didn't just point DNS for the website to 127.0.0.1.

      Let the infected servers work it out amongst themselves. :)

  2. Re:Gates Memo repost - slowing... by otisaardvark · · Score: 5, Funny
    Today, in the developed world, we do not worry about electricity and water services being available.

    You have to give it to the guy; his timing is impeccable...

  3. Microsoft != reliable by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Actually, there are rumors that safety systems that would have prevented such widespread failure were running on Windows and were down because of blaster. "

    If those rumors are true, then the worm didn't cause the power failures, it just disabled the systems that would have prevented them. That this happened at around the same time is just a coincidence, - or maybe minor power failures happen frequently and were just prevented from spreading?

    Who the fuck runs mission-critical systems on Windows?!! HOMER SIMPSON?!!!

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  4. Re:What did they do? by golgotha007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    why would i want to help allievate the situation? hell, i get to have all my computers attack microsoft for free! and legally! wohoo! sick 'em!

  5. Disk Operating System by Tired_Blood · · Score: 5, Funny

    While Windows was getting all the attention from their common creator Microsoft, DOS has secretly been waiting for its opportunity to strike at both.

    From the infoworld article:
    The company is cooperating with federal law enforcement officials to investigate the attack, which is the second successful DOS attack against Microsoft.com this month.

    Two successful DOS attacks this month. And what a sense of irony: revolt against the creator by manipulating "the favorite" to do its bidding.

    What's so hard about using a lower-case 'o'?

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  6. Re:Power outage related to Microsoft by Wingnut64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Is there any way this 'DoS' can be stopped?"
    "Impossibly, there's too many compromised machines. You'd need to turn off every computer on the East Coast..."

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