I wonder if most of the traffic to Microsoft occurs around the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

> Google, Microsoft, Facebook. Arbor says there are about 30 of these 'hyper giant' companies that generate and consume about 30% of all Internet traffic.'

Surely they could have dumped the user accounts from AD (like the SAM under NT) and crack all the accounts on a remote machine. Then maybe it wouldn't have even been noticed. And if the POS software was secure, it should not matter if someone downloaded the source code.

Thanks for the info. I assume you could exact the capicom.dll as if you were going to slipstream SP2 into office 2007.

Actually I was referring to KB967723.

And interestingly enough, the patch for windows 2003 (64bit) installs on XP (64 bit) but it's download is not referenced from the KB. And apparently MS has said they won't provide a patch for XP (either 64 or 32).

Wow.

"not technically feasible" to patch at least XP 64 bit which was release after 2003 32-bit server and before 2003 server 64-bit. I thought the code base was really similar. Especially since it uses the same Service Pack (WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB914961-SP2-x64-ENU.exe)

General Availability Dates from Microsoft

Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86) 5/28/2003
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition 4/24/2005
Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition 5/28/2005

This cannot be anything less than a ploy to kill XP (and 2000 server) and bring on the new era of Windows Play Skool Edition (Windows Visa 2009 aka Windows 7)

hhhmmm

I wonder if the backbone network admins are going to block access to that "set of web servers" or just let nature take it course.

This is something that is long overdue.

I saw OS2 running on an ATM in a 3rd world country about 2 years ago. It had crashed and was rebooting.

I remember install Trumpet Winsock and then downloading netscape via ftp commands from the command prompt. Maybe that was under Windows 3.1

If you could not do that, there was AOL and Compuserve.

That is supposed to be what the courts and judges are for. Try reading the constitution some time.

Does anyone know for certain if disabling autorun on all drives using tweakui eliminates the attack vector?

I would not be surprised if the NSA has something similar at work here in the US.