Re: Microsoft to rush out emergency Windows patch today

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

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
> wrote:
>
> > > > Default?
> > > > And what might those rulesets be, pray tell?
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;ln;xpsp2swhw and a
> > hundred other URLs at Microsoft.com: "By default, Windows Firewall is
> > enabled and blocks unsolicited connections to your computer."
> >
> > That's the default configuration after you install SP2 (or SP3 or Vista)
> > or when you buy a computer from an OEM with them pre-installed.
>
> We'll see, I guess. :-)
>
> - - ferg

BTW, I guess that if it weren't a _real_ threat, Microsoft would have just
included it in the normal monthly Patch Tuesday release.

Savvy?

- - ferg

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