I installed the referenced patch last night along with
821557 and following installing and rebooting the system
could no longer read my DVD, CD, and floppy drives. After
doing a system restore, the problem has gone away.
Has anyone else been reporting such problems? I want to
install the patch, but not if it is going to disable my
PC.
>-----Original Message-----
>Folks;
>
>Microsoft has issued a security bulletin 03-26 that, to
quote from the
>bulletin, "To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker
would need to send
>a specially formed request to the remote computer on
port 135."
>
>As we all know around here from all the complaints about
Messenger
>popups, most folks don't have firewalls on their NetBIOS
ports.
>
>The discoverer who posted on BugTraq did not release an
exploit, but the
>hole is universal, well-known, and very dangerous. Folks
need to block
>this port on their Internet interfaces, quickly. Go to
Windows Update
>and get 823980 and get a personal firewall if you don't
have one, before
>someone releases a new Messenger popup that does really
bad things to
>your system.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>.
>
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