Yet Another Critical Windows Flaw

Dynamoo writes "Microsoft released yesterday a whole bunch of critical security updates. Out of these, MS03-043 is a flaw in the Windows Messenger Service (not MSN Messenger) with the possibility of a remote attacker gaining complete control of a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 based PC remotely. If this sounds like another possible vector for a worm to spread, you'd probably be right. Microsoft's recommendation is to 'disable the Messenger Service immediately and evaluate their need to deploy the patch'. Of course a firewall will offer some protection but shouldn't be relied on. At least administrators can disable the Messenger Service remotely. Of course this is another headache for admins still patching for last month's RPC flaw."

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Re:Call to worm developers!!

[pebs]

This time, please do something really useful, not only doing such silly thing as DOS'ing windowsupdate
Therefore, people will be *really* annoyed and may think it's time to switch to another more reliable OS.

You're the reason people think like this.

You stupid prick, you think writing worms is a good way to get people to switch to a "more reliable OS"??!?? Do you realize how fucked up that is? Do you realize that its people like you who are keeping people away from Linux?

Its the stupid shits like you who are fucking up the open source community. Well guess what? We don't want your kind in our community. Get the fuck out. For all I care, you can go back to using Windows.

Open source will succeed by producing quality software, and by forming a community that is out to help people. It will NOT succeed by sabotaging the competition. Dirty tactics like that are for the truly evil. You're worse that Microsoft if you are advocating the use of worms to convince people to switch.

Completely false

[Overly Critical Guy]

In fact, Bill Gates gave a recent talk in which he mentioned that the reason SP2 is taking so long is because they're backporting security features from Windows Longhorn into XP.

This isn't really a big news item--except on Slashdot, of course. Meanwhile, Linux distros have 10-20 flaws a month, but everyone ignores that for "Yet Another Critical Windows Flaw."

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