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Originally posted by: TheVrolok
As much as I agree that the creators of this worm need to be prosecutred I can't help thinking that maybe people should learn a lesson. Monopolies and massive Corporations aren't always great things because they can sacrifice product quality and get away with it because we let them. This worm attack has made me even more sure of my permanent switch to Linux.
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Have you ever thought that people use Windows because of the user friendliness? I can understand where you're coming from. Just because they're a monopoly doesn't mean they can make a crappy product or produce one that has a lot of security flaws.
 
Originally posted by: anxi80
i forgot about my laptop and just patched it. windows update didnt want to come up, taking too long. luckily i had a friend who just so happened to have the win xp patch on his system. lucked out. even scanned, clean. whew, close call. disaster for the pc and laptop averted. 😀
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im getting errors on windowsupdate, cannot load it.
 
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
As much as I agree that the creators of this worm need to be prosecutred I can't help thinking that maybe people should learn a lesson. Monopolies and massive Corporations aren't always great things because they can sacrifice product quality and get away with it because we let them. This worm attack has made me even more sure of my permanent switch to Linux.
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I totally agree with this. I'm a Windows user, and use plenty of other MS products here at work, and actually like them, but I totally agree with your statement.



KeyserSoze

 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
As much as I agree that the creators of this worm need to be prosecutred I can't help thinking that maybe people should learn a lesson. Monopolies and massive Corporations aren't always great things because they can sacrifice product quality and get away with it because we let them. This worm attack has made me even more sure of my permanent switch to Linux.
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Have you ever thought that people use Windows because of the user friendliness? I can understand where you're coming from. Just because they're a monopoly doesn't mean they can make a crappy product or produce one that has a lot of security flaws.
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That's exactly why they can, and do it. Given, it's impossible to find any software that's put out without a single flaw, but the amount of patching that is required for Windows is becoming excessive. MS is allowed to be the monopoly it is and this contributes to the fact that it is the most user friendly OS, give the smaller OSes, Linux for example, more time and see what happens.
 
windowsupdate.com works thru support.microsoft.com, but it can't come up with any updates tho...must be from a different server...everything says "0".
 
Windows does have its flaws. The fact that every year MS has to release an increasing number of patches shows that they don't spend enough effort on weeding out bugs despite Bill's recent memo to the company stressing quality. However, Linux has it's share of flaws which I am sure would be apparent if it were the #1 desktop software. Viruses aren't any fun when they don't make headlines because the OS they are targetting only constitutes a few percentage points of market share.

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
As much as I agree that the creators of this worm need to be prosecutred I can't help thinking that maybe people should learn a lesson. Monopolies and massive Corporations aren't always great things because they can sacrifice product quality and get away with it because we let them. This worm attack has made me even more sure of my permanent switch to Linux.
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Have you ever thought that people use Windows because of the user friendliness? I can understand where you're coming from. Just because they're a monopoly doesn't mean they can make a crappy product or produce one that has a lot of security flaws.
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great... I stay late to make sure all the servers are patched and I can't even get to the freaking MS site.

Most are fine and the firewall has been stopping the worm, but there are a few older servers we still need to patch. Oh well, I'm going to the ballgame tomorrow night, so it will just have to wait! 😛
 
windowsupdate works for me, tho I'm in Linux so it just takes me to that site that says I need to be running a valid MS OS, and then gives me further info. This page is probably hosted on the actual www.windowsupdate.com server which isn't getting attacked (if it is) like the microsoft.com one is ?
 
On windowsupdate.com, I can go all the way through the updating process to where it downloads, where it chokes halfway and tells me to try again later. Been like that all day. However I can browse all around www.microsoft.com without any problems.

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
windowsupdate works for me, tho I'm in Linux so it just takes me to that site that says I need to be running a valid MS OS, and then gives me further info. This page is probably hosted on the actual www.windowsupdate.com server which isn't getting attacked (if it is) like the microsoft.com one is ?
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Originally posted by: pacmanfan
I have the patches for NT 4.0, 2k Pro, XP. Anyone need em?
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ah screw it, it's 11pm and I'm going home!

Thanks anyways (others may still need them). 🙂
 
i sent you PM pacman i need them for one other XP system in the network

irronically thats how i found out how MS was down
 
getting error with that one too neutralizer when it trys to find out what version of windows update i have get response that windows update has encounterd an error
 
Originally posted by: KROME
getting error with that one too neutralizer when it trys to find out what version of windows update i have get response that windows update has encounterd an error
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i dont get an error, but it scans really fast and says I have no updates.
 
Ok, ok, hang on guys. I'll host em, but I'm on dialup, and I gotta go find the cd real quick. I'll post the links as soon as they are up. 40GB of bandwidth for this month, looks like it'll come in handy 🙂
 
Originally posted by: pacmanfan
Ok, ok, hang on guys. I'll host em, but I'm on dialup, and I gotta go find the cd real quick. I'll post the links as soon as they are up. 40GB of bandwidth for this month, looks like it'll come in handy 🙂
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Dialup? Ick. Better make sure to get 'em to some broadband users so we can mirror. 🙂
 
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