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[tony23]

Urgent . Critical Update for users of windoze

Users of Windows machines are urged once again to do the microsoft two step and update the latest security patch. Issued Sept. 10 2003

"New threats to your computer's security like Blaster and Sobig are emerging all the time. Use the links below to install the latest Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft Office updates and to help ensure that your computer is protected."


Install the update below, and then take three steps to help Protect Your PC.

Quote Microsoft

"Why We Are Issuing This Update.
A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise a computer running Microsoft® Windows® and gain complete control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft."


This is yet another critical update for users of windows OS

here....
http://www.microsoft.com

here...
http://www.microsoft.com/security/

and here...
http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-039.asp

Follow the Microbloat road...

[Kees]

Thnx for the warning :-)

[Mad-Matt]

ya know some good has actually come out of all these viruses. The windows engineers have finaly been given something to do , a reason to look into actually attempt at fixing windows

[tony23]

Hi Kees,

Quote..
Thnx for the warning :-)

No prob / your welcome, better warn others, don't want to see eveyone getting hacked or whatever.
I didn't know where to post it though, maybe put it up as news ?

[Kees]

submit it here :-)
http://amiga.org/modules/news/submit.php

[lempkee]

windows shall die , that is its destiny.

btw how big is windows now ? , it must be twice the size of what it was on its first release

i urge ya all to not upgrade, just let it die.


go AMIGA instead

[mikeymike]

ya know some good has actually come out of all these viruses. The windows engineers have finaly been given something to do , a reason to look into actually attempt at fixing windows

Nope, they just fix the vulnerabilities when they present themselves.

Presumably when you say 'engineers' you mean people working on the OS development rather than sysadmins?

[mikeymike]

btw how big is windows now ? , it must be twice the size of what it was on its first release

Using the liberal estimate of an early version of Windows' footprint, the current version (XP) is over 30 times larger :-)

[that_punk_guy]

Imagine installing XP from floppy :-D

[JoannaK]

Hmm.. Keepin windowse-PC turned of (and behind firewalls etc..) keeps
getting better idea each day...

[tony23]

@ that_punk_guy

Hey thanks, just made me think to check the size of my system,When I first installed XP Pro I thought a 6 Gig drive would be sufficient, but no..

My XP Pro with all updates and patches now weighs in at 5.55 Gigs. All my programs are on a separate drive but windows still puts a lot of files onto the system disk. Seems I've got some serious cleaning up to do on the system disk now because I need some free space for the VM.

Even though the original install took about 3 Gigs of space it has grown this large in no time at all. XP would be even more of a nightmare if you had to install from floppies. :-x

Anyways thanks again punk_guy . : )

Now I'm off to stop this OS from bloating anymore.
Anyone got a hammer ?

[lempkee]

mikeymike: size does matter on pc , seriously it just shows what kind of bloatware it is

doom them all , there is a new prince seeking the crown and he aint evil nor bloated ..let him conquror the world

anyway 30times bigger...awesome lol... heaps of code in there, or maybe i should say heaps of bugs

[cecilia]

hey! MircoShaft!
Install THIS....
(picture a certain part of the masculine anatomy)

[that_punk_guy]

tony23 wrote:

Anyways thanks again punk_guy . : )

erm... don't mention it :-D he he

[DonnyEMU]

You guys are real geniuses, I like going to windows update or having the "you have new updates to install" icon pop up in my system tray. The security update thing is a good one. Imagine having a platform that you can't get an important update automatically online. It saves me time and money and I don't have to worry that some idiot has attacked my machine and in the least I have lost all of my work.

Windows update is good, I'd rather know about problems and have them give me a good fix than not and get caught with a virus or some malicious code..

SCORE 1 for Windows.. How do you call an update bloat ware when the updater that runs only downloads "exactly" the files you need for the update require and does it automatically for you..

For those of you who think there aren't plenty of bugs or reasons for having this in any other OS, maybe your OS doesn't have to do so much for so many..