Re: Microsoft to rush out emergency Windows patch today

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

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
wrote:

> << 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.
>
> How? (This is hypothetical here) I am running XPSP2 and my firewall is
> on. I don't have file and print sharing on, as is the case with the
> overwhelming majority of XPSP2 users.

You have a firewall. You are protecting yourself.

You are in the minority.

- - ferg

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