Microsoft Releases Critical Patches

girlgeek · 10-19-2003

I'm sure that everyone heard about this on Thursday, but I didn't see a thread. Microsoft announced five new critical flaws in their operating systems, that could allow an attacker access to your system. These new vulnerabilities are much like last month's Blaster worm. I have automatic update enabled on my Windows Machine, and it did not automatically download the patches. I had to do it manually. I'm sitting behind a router and have DCOM disabled, so I wasn't too worried, but I would still patch these flaws. These updates affect Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT 4.0 and Me is only affected by one. Windows 98 should be OK, unless you have add-ons of the affected services.

You can read about the updates here:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/security...015_windows.asp

Here is the Reuters article on the release of the critical updates:

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml...623434§ion=news

There are also a couple of nasty viruses running around out there. A couple of old ones have been surfacing this week. If you are not running an anti-virus, check out AVG Anti-virus. The free download is a basic interface, but it is better than nothing.

Last edited by girlgeek at Oct 19 2003, 02:53 PM

10-19-2003	#1
girlgeek Members Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 266	I'm sure that everyone heard about this on Thursday, but I didn't see a thread. Microsoft announced five new critical flaws in their operating systems, that could allow an attacker access to your system. These new vulnerabilities are much like last month's Blaster worm. I have automatic update enabled on my Windows Machine, and it did not automatically download the patches. I had to do it manually. I'm sitting behind a router and have DCOM disabled, so I wasn't too worried, but I would still patch these flaws. These updates affect Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT 4.0 and Me is only affected by one. Windows 98 should be OK, unless you have add-ons of the affected services. You can read about the updates here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/security...015_windows.asp Here is the Reuters article on the release of the critical updates: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml...623434§ion=news There are also a couple of nasty viruses running around out there. A couple of old ones have been surfacing this week. If you are not running an anti-virus, check out AVG Anti-virus. The free download is a basic interface, but it is better than nothing. Last edited by girlgeek at Oct 19 2003, 02:53 PM