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Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP 759

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @08:13AM from the to-improve-your-customer-experience dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft says it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4. 'We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible,' said security program manager Adrian Stone during Microsoft's monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000 and XP. 'An update for Windows XP will not be made available,' Stone and fellow program manager Jerry Bryant said during the Q&A portion of the Webcast (transcript here). Last Tuesday, Microsoft said that it wouldn't be patching Windows 2000 because creating a fix was 'infeasible.'"

Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw 114

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @05:30PM from the who-needs-a-botnet dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Today vendors are finally releasing patches for the TCP vulnerabilities first publicized nearly a year ago that affect a huge range of networking products, including any device running a version of Cisco's IOS software, and a number of Microsoft server and desktop operating systems. Both Microsoft and Cisco released fixes for the vulnerabilities today. The Microsoft Patch Tuesday release included the fix for the TCP flaw, which affects Windows Server 2003 and 2008, as well as Windows Vista, both the 32-bit and 64-bit editions, and Windows 2000 SP4, for which no fix is coming. The TCP flaws were identified several years ago and were made public last year by two researchers at Outpost24, Jack C. Louis and Robert E. Lee. Louis, who has since died, developed a tool called Sockstress that tested for the flaw and was able to maintain extremely long-term TCP connections with remote machines using very little bandwidth."

Comment Quacking in Boston (Score 1) 251

by Andrew Lindh on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @03:02PM (#29276949) Attached to: Tour Companies Battle Over Trademarked Duck Noises

Has no one been to Boston, MA? They have been quacking there for years...

Quick clip quacking from the sidewalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDtqGvNjGw

News video (no quacking): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ugjBah0eZg

Comment Area Code (Score 1) 198

by Andrew Lindh on Friday June 19, 2009 @02:59PM (#28393619) Attached to: Google Voice Grabs 1 Million Phone Numbers

So will they just get their own area code? Say 466 and start all numbers with 4 (yes that's GOOG).

Comment E-mail server not responding (Score 3, Funny) 629

by Andrew Lindh on Friday April 03, 2009 @08:31PM (#27453333) Attached to: FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center

I love the end of the story "CBS 11 News emailed Simpson about the raid, but as of Thursday evening he had yet to respond"..... I wonder why? May be the FBI took their mail server too?

Comment Re:Stickers... (Score 2, Funny) 993

by Andrew Lindh on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:39PM (#27393909) Attached to: How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly?

Everything looks faster with a racing stripe! May be something in a nice plaid or hot pink.

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