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September 11, 2003

The next blaster?

Yesterday Microsoft released an advisory describing a Windows vulnerability that is very similar to the one exploited by the blaster and nachia worms. In response to the vulnerability Microsoft has released an updated patch that addresses both the new flaw and the flaw exploited by blaster et al. Unfortunately the older patch--the one we distributed earlier--does not fix the new vulnerability.

We (per Microsoft's recommendation) strongly encourage all users to protect themselves by installing the new patch. The patch files for Windows 2000 and Windows XP may be downloaded directly from this site, or may be found on the student Z: drive in the "Sophos Anti-Virus". Windows 2000 users should download and install Service Pack 4 from this site before installing the patch listed above. Posted by ben beachy at September 11, 2003 09:35 AM
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