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Posted Jan 31, 2003 14:07 UTC (Fri) by sphealey (guest, #1028)
In reply to: A look at the MS-SQL worm by dbhost
Parent article: A look at the MS-SQL worm

"Security security security" unfortunately conflicts with "test test test". The cannonical example being Windows NT 4 Service Pack 6, which (i) contained numerous critical security patches (b) broke Lotus Notes servers. Microsoft patches are notorious for breaking existing apps, but it happens with other vendors' software/patches as well. Now what does the diligent sysadmin do?

sPh


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Posted Feb 3, 2003 23:30 UTC (Mon) by sphealey (guest, #1028) [Link]

Oops - Microsoft have just withdrawn a critical security patch because it "may cause Windows NT to fail". Hope you didn't install it. But wait: if you didn't install it, you were vulnerable... But if you did install it...

sPh

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