ghost16825Use security metricsPremium
join:2003-08-26
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Re: Nachi the new champion bad boy Worse, some of these patches don't patch it properly.
The blaster patch sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
I "patched" a machine the other day and using the DCOMulator from grc it tells me it's unpatched.
The worrying thing is about these machines is that they're free for the taking. That's thousands of machines with free processing power and free bandwidth. |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to Link Logger
I just got a new Dell and it came with ICF enabled so Dell is doing their part in this respect. I have XPSP1a. However, when I went to Windows Update, I found 13 critical updates waiting for me. It would not help for Microsoft to issue updates to the OEM's because at least Dell (I don't know about the others) doesn't even install XP as Microsoft sends it to them. Dell takes quite a bit of time to "tweak" XP for Dell computers and then finally installs it. The XP CD Dell sent me is not the same as the XP CD I would get if I bought XP in the store off the shelf. There is already a significant lag time from the time Microsoft sends an OS to the OEM before it gets on the OEM's new machines. Sending CD's with the latest patches would not solve a thing.
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1 edit | That is one reason I bought a license of XP Professional from the store and upgraded my Dell computer.  |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | I would have done the same except my old W98SE box is not upgradeable to XP. So, I didn't have much a choice. I also wanted W2000 PRO instead of XP Pro but again unless I just fork out extra money now at the store, I have to live with XP.
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"Everything can be taken from a man or woman but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's destiny." Victor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning |
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