Re: Microsoft to rush out emergency Windows patch today

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
wrote:

> IIRC, MS05-039 didn't hit XP SP2 users as hard as those of earlier
> versions for the same reasons MS08-067 doesn't. Back then XPSP2 was
> relatively new, about a year old and met with a lot of resistance, so
> the world was full of vulnerable systems. How many pre-XP SP2 systems
> are out there in the wild now? (And not already massively infected with
> something?)

Doesn't matter, red herring.

If you have a system that is not patched against this threat, you will be
pwned in the same fashion as the MS05-039 exploit spread like wildfire --
that was my point.

- - ferg

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