Worm never seen before

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Jason Edwards

J. S. Jackson said:
You know Microsoft offers SP2 on a CD for free.

But what they don't offer, as far as I'm aware, is a replacement XP install
CD for those people who want to reinstall XP.

Jason
 
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DevilsPGD

In message <[email protected]> "Jason Edwards"
But what they don't offer, as far as I'm aware, is a replacement XP install
CD for those people who want to reinstall XP.

IIRC you can buy it for $5-$10. However, it is media only, you need to
provide your own license.
 
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Bart Bailey

The Illini Idiot Duane Arnold of Decatur Illinois wrote: Begin



You made the claim, buckwheat, I just offered you an opportunity to put
up or shut up, neither of which have you been able to do.
 
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Bart Bailey

A quick Google suggests it doesn't but I have not read the manual in detail
so it is possible I missed one or more of its capabilities.

It's a replacement for another modem (can't remember the model off hand)
that the SBC guys left when they replaced a defective PCI card, doesn't
require the use of the Enternet software I had to use before, so I
suspect its firmware might have routing capabilities, not sure though.
Try setting up unpatched RTM Windows 2000 or Windows XP and see what
happens.

My XP-Pro box doesn't get connected to the net,
it's for the extra multimedia capabilities (audio, digicam) only.
When I last tried it for demonstration reasons it took less than 1 minute
for a worm to spread to the demonstration PC.

I'm not at all surprised.
The PC was then disconnected
and reformatted.

Simply reloading a clean image of the OS partition
would have probably saved you some config time.
Yeah well I can understand that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish
between spew and facts.

He's never retracted his claims to this day, and chooses to dismiss his
failure as some negative aspect of my character.
(pssst Duane, care to try again?)
If you are fully patched (have all critical or high priority Windows
updates) then if I were you I would not worry.

If I had the slightest amount of doubt or worry,
I wouldn't be so annoyingly arrogant. said:
Attacks by real people are rare as far as the average home user is
concerned. Most 'attacks' come from other compromised Windows PCs. There are
exceptions; such as if you're running unpatched IIS, but you're not doing
that, are you?

Nope, no servers here except an occasional use of BulletProof FTP
server, and it's usually with some weird port and pwd combo.
 
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Duane Arnold

The Illini Idiot Duane Arnold of Decatur Illinois wrote: Begin




You made the claim, buckwheat, I just offered you an opportunity to put
up or shut up, neither of which have you been able to do.

And the claim was in your pot riddled mind as usual. Had I know you were
so messed-up, you can best believe I would have given you a wide lane. You
are a real *card*. You should be locked-up and the key thrown away. What
is it? The crap is over 2.5 to 3 years ago and you're still whining. ;-)
What did you do lose the Prozac bottle?

Duane :)
 
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Duane Arnold

One other thing here Bart. When you started talking about your Internet
sister, I should have known right then and there that you were gone.

Duane :)
 
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Greg Hennessy

But what they don't offer, as far as I'm aware, is a replacement XP install
CD for those people who want to reinstall XP.

For anyone who owns a cd burner and the original media, creating a new
slipstreamed sp2 install cd is trivial.


greg
 
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jasee

Jason said:
But what they don't offer, as far as I'm aware, is a replacement XP
install CD for those people who want to reinstall XP.

You should have at least been provided with a recovery disk with your
computer.
(Save all data before using it) as recovery disks revert the machine to 'as
first received condition'.
 
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Cyber-Hun

Seems this exploit needed the attack surface created by the service running
on port 445, this is why it's good to shut these services down in addition
to blocking to blocking the incoming port 445 traffuc with a router.
Especially if you're just running a standalone, home system that doesn't
need to talk to other domain members.
 
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Jason Edwards

Greg Hennessy said:
For anyone who owns a cd burner and the original media, creating a new
slipstreamed sp2 install cd is trivial.

Only for some people.
Most people will never find out how to do it, never mind be able to.
Even if they can, they won't know where to find their license key or how to
back up data they want to keep.

Jason
 
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Duane Arnold

The Illini Idiot Duane Arnold of Decatur Illinois wrote: Begin




You made the claim, buckwheat, I just offered you an opportunity to put
up or shut up, neither of which have you been able to do.

Once again you *clown*, I made no claim. You should run to the doctor
quickly and have your Prozac scripts refilled and then choke a couple down
and have your Internet sister take you there.

You don't see how mentally gone you are. Like I told you before, that
happened to you when you were a baby and you were dropped head first on the
cement curb. You became a pure nut case at that point. ;-)

I snatched your *heart* from you in the AV NG Princess and *punked* you out
there. Boy, you better not ever get sent to prison and locked-up for any
time period, which I don't think is impossible for you by you actions to
date. You should be prepared to drop you lien and keep on grinning, because
your spots don't change Princess.

I guess you don't remember that other poster you attack with the same BS
about *Come on and attack me I need to be attacked* delusions you were
going through and still going through apparently. The poster told you he
had a hot date and didn't have time to be messing around with a *clown*
like you. Did you forget that Bart? You lost you pills and you're
regressing. You should find the pills Bart find the pills.

Duane :)
 
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Gabriele Neukam

On that special day, Bart Bailey, ([email protected]) said...
My XP-Pro box doesn't get connected to the net,
it's for the extra multimedia capabilities (audio, digicam) only.

Good idea. If I (ever?) get one, it will be behind a broadband router
with NAT (already there), and I'll never browse with IE, or mail with
OE. Remember how it was announced: "The safest Windows ever". Now it is
the most often(ly?) attacked and corrupted one.

I wonder why I, when hearing this "safest ever" burble, immediately
thought: "I'd better wait and see; I can't believe it is *that* safe.
I'd better wait until it is fixed and tightened well enough, so that it
will live up to its standards". I only know that I am still waiting.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
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Bart Bailey

On that special day, Bart Bailey, ([email protected]) said...


Good idea. If I (ever?) get one, it will be behind a broadband router
with NAT (already there), and I'll never browse with IE, or mail with
OE. Remember how it was announced: "The safest Windows ever". Now it is
the most often(ly?) attacked and corrupted one.

BTW: it has IE/OE because I think it would be a major hassle to remove
it from XP, and from time to time I'll copy a site with a web bot and
play it over there to see what happens.
I wonder why I, when hearing this "safest ever" burble, immediately
thought: "I'd better wait and see; I can't believe it is *that* safe.
I'd better wait until it is fixed and tightened well enough, so that it
will live up to its standards". I only know that I am still waiting.

Yep , it sounds like so much of the hyperbole swirling around the net,
whether a "new improved (lemon scented) operating system", or the latest
"must have" be all and end all security bundle, of course the inevitable
crashes and corruption never seem to get mention.
Gabriele Neukam

....und ein glückliches neues Jahr zu Ihnen, Gaby!
 
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Gabriele Neukam

On that special day, Bart Bailey, ([email protected]) said...
...und ein glückliches neues Jahr zu Ihnen, Gaby!

Of course, a Happy New Year to you, too. And to all here, be them
regulars or lurkers.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
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cquirke (MVP Win9x)

For anyone who owns a cd burner and the original media, creating a new
slipstreamed sp2 install cd is trivial.

Not as trivial as it should be. If an SP breaks the installation CD,
as SP2 does, it should include a skippable step in the installation
process to create that slipstreamed replacement CDR.

If it's so trivial, perhaps you can explain exctly how to make a
slipstreamed OS CDR in your reply? Or is it non-trivial enough that
you'd rather point to a URL rather than type it out?


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"He's such a character!"
' Yeah - CHAR(0) '
 
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Greg Hennessy

Not as trivial as it should be. If an SP breaks the installation CD,
as SP2 does,

'breaks the installation CD' in what manner ?

Bearing in mind that that I have a hand crafted slipstreamed SP2 CD in my
hand that works perfectly.

If it's so trivial, perhaps you can explain exctly how to make a
slipstreamed OS CDR in your reply? Or is it non-trivial enough that
you'd rather point to a URL rather than type it out?

Oh do dry up you posturing trout.


greg
 
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John Mason Jr

cquirke said:
Not as trivial as it should be. If an SP breaks the installation CD,
as SP2 does, it should include a skippable step in the installation
process to create that slipstreamed replacement CDR.

If it's so trivial, perhaps you can explain exctly how to make a
slipstreamed OS CDR in your reply? Or is it non-trivial enough that
you'd rather point to a URL rather than type it out?


Google is your friend

<http://www.google.com/search?client...&hl=en&q=slipstream+SP2+XP&btnG=Google+Search>

of course with any info from the internet you'll need to choose a source
you trust and that you can understand.


John
 

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