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ShoeHornOPlenty 
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Posted 31 July 2001 - 03:37 AM
Should Win XP users download the Win 2K Pro patch?
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Atreyu
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Posted 31 July 2001 - 06:03 AM
This worm only targets a vulnerability in IIS 4.0 and 5.0. If you are running WinXP, more than likely you're running the home version, or pro version... neither of which, to my understanding, have IIS included. You only need to download and install the patches on machines running IIS.
This is gonna be neat.. muhaHAHAHAHAHA!!
Curious to see what happens.
Companies prolly aren't gonna have many problems... the problems are gonna be greatest with people at home who have IIS installed and don't know it, or have IIS installed but don't bother to manage it.
Anyways, you could always try to install the patch just in case. I'd rather err on the side of caution. Also, if you are running PWS (Personal Web Server) on Win9x, or XP if it's available (I'm no XP guru yet).. i would look into that too. Not sure if PWS has the same vulnerability.
Chow.
BTW... congrats CLUTCH!!!
This is gonna be neat.. muhaHAHAHAHAHA!!
Curious to see what happens.
Companies prolly aren't gonna have many problems... the problems are gonna be greatest with people at home who have IIS installed and don't know it, or have IIS installed but don't bother to manage it.
Anyways, you could always try to install the patch just in case. I'd rather err on the side of caution. Also, if you are running PWS (Personal Web Server) on Win9x, or XP if it's available (I'm no XP guru yet).. i would look into that too. Not sure if PWS has the same vulnerability.
Chow.
BTW... congrats CLUTCH!!!
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