Re: Patch up your security, folks, before the 15th...

"Paul Drake" <drak0nian_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1ac7c7b3.0308130656.7e965029_at_posting.google.com...
> component to it, its just a worm. So a firewall should be sufficient
> to block this (as well as blocking such ports over any vpn
> connections).

Yeah. It uses the RPC port. I don't have a problem with this sort of thing, all access is through a hardware firewall/router. Love these things: they are locked in by design and you have to intentionally open access where you want it. Best investment I've done. Plus it e-mails me the little visitor's IP, so I can start checking on the nasty ones from anywhere.

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> other than that - no issues with applying SP4 on W2K Server.
>

It stuffed up with my AMD XP2200 mobo: had to update the VIA 4-in-1 drivers and a whole stack of other stuff... But it's all back to normal now. Did this long before this worm showed up anyway.

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> After applying SP4, you'll still need to run the Windows Update agent
> to get the 2 buffer overflow patches, which will require another
> reboot. Better off to set your oracle services to manual prior to
> applying SP4, and then set them back to automatic after you're done
> patching.

Isn't it wonderful? ;)

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