32bit or 64bit

[Si]

I'm running XP Home Edition, without SP1 installed.

Should I choose the 32Bit version of the blaster patch or the 64Bit version
and will it work without SP1 installed?

Si.

 

[YK]

I'm running XP Home Edition, without SP1 installed.

Should I choose the 32Bit version of the blaster patch or the 64Bit
version and will it work without SP1 installed?

Si.

32Bit. But SP1 might be a prereq. Why have you not installed SP1?
Not keeping up with Critical updates can be hazardous to your system's
health and it is very vunerable to attacks. When you do not update you are
a major contrubutor to the proliferation of attacks on the Internet. If
more people kept their systems up to date then this fiasco that just
happened would have been drasically reduced.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

I've always used the ICF firewall, passed the tests at
http://scan.sygate.com/quickscan.html and use AVG updated frequently.

Apparently there's a problem with SP1 and HP machines, and you have to go to
HP for a patch after installing SP1.

Basically, I've always shied away from updates, ever since using Win98,
going on the assumption that 'if it ain't broken, don't fix it'.

Now, I know that some may say that as I haven't installed the updates, then
it is broken, but perhaps I've been lucky...

My stepdaughter's bf caught blaster, but he's not particularly virus aware,
neither did he have a firewall. I cleaned his machine for him and turned ICF
on, d/loaded the free version of AVG and installed that for him too...

...but it has made me consider my own security. I believe though that ICF
will stop blaster? Am I correct?

Si.

If it's set up right it'll stop it arriving via the DCOM/RPC port
exploit .. won't stop it arriving some other way, and ICF doesn't check
outgoing packets at all so if you get infected, you'll still blast the
rest of us. There are better (free) fire walls available.

There is also a rumour that several fire walls will open the offending
port if 'Frontpage' is being run on the machine behind them, since it
listens to the port that MSBlaster attacks via. Don't use Frontpage
myself, so no idea if this is fact or fancy.

 

[Michael Thompson]

I'm running XP Home Edition, without SP1 installed.

Should I choose the 32Bit version of the blaster patch or the 64Bit version

Depends on the processor, do you have a P4? If yes you need the 32Bit.
If you have the Itanium (And I doubt it) then you need the 64Bit.

and will it work without SP1 installed?

Proberly not.

KEEP MACHINES UPDATED!!!!!!!!

 

[Michael Thompson]

I've always used the ICF firewall, passed the tests at
http://scan.sygate.com/quickscan.html and use AVG updated frequently.

Apparently there's a problem with SP1 and HP machines, and you have to go to
HP for a patch after installing SP1.

Basically, I've always shied away from updates, ever since using Win98,
going on the assumption that 'if it ain't broken, don't fix it'.

Now, I know that some may say that as I haven't installed the updates, then
it is broken, but perhaps I've been lucky...

My stepdaughter's bf caught blaster, but he's not particularly virus aware,
neither did he have a firewall. I cleaned his machine for him and turned ICF
on, d/loaded the free version of AVG and installed that for him too...

...but it has made me consider my own security. I believe though that ICF
will stop blaster? Am I correct?

ICF Is utter crap. If you are serious, get a proper firewall.

ICF does not filter outgoing traffic at all, so a virus trojan on your
system would be quite happy sending your Credit card details all day
long. Not to mention Zombie attacks....and the rest.

 

[DRACO-]

32Bit. But SP1 might be a prereq. Why have you not installed SP1?
Not keeping up with Critical updates can be hazardous to your system's
health and it is very vunerable to attacks. When you do not update you are
a major contrubutor to the proliferation of attacks on the Internet. If
more people kept their systems up to date then this fiasco that just
happened would have been drasically reduced.

If the guy is on dialup, i can understand why he doesnt have sp1
installed.. It's freakin 30mb if you install thru web interface.
Otherwise it's 131mb if you download the whole exe.

I tried it last night. Id like to say MS sure makes it easy to update
(sarcasim). The dumb applet got disconnected from ms 6 times. I killed
it and restarted it and overnight it managed to download everything. But
it aborted when it was backing up files, it kept having problems copying
mstv*.dll's. You would think they would make their service pack installs
non interactive, set it and forget it install, but hell no, You have to be
there every 38 seconds to hit a button. I feel like a lab rat, except I
dont get a treat! Ill have to try it again tonight.

DRACO-

 

[Jason]

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32Bit. But SP1 might be a prereq. Why have you not installed SP1?
Not keeping up with Critical updates can be hazardous to your system's
health and it is very vunerable to attacks. When you do not update you are
a major contrubutor to the proliferation of attacks on the Internet. If
more people kept their systems up to date then this fiasco that just
happened would have been drasically reduced.

ROFL. So it's the people who don't patch's fault for other people's
problems, which stems from an MS flaw.

 

[Conor]

ROFL. So it's the people who don't patch's fault for other people's
problems, which stems from an MS flaw.

The only problem is that you can't really bitch at MS because they
fixed it pretty quickly. All those who've been caught by it only have
themselves to blame.


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[Ian.H [dS]]

The only problem is that you can't really bitch at MS because they
fixed it pretty quickly. All those who've been caught by it only have
themselves to blame.

Quickly!?!?!? when was NT4 released!? LOL



Regards,

Ian