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whiskeytown
08-16-2005, 08:10 PM
Windows 2000 and early XP boxes are vulunerable - causes reboots of the CPU - it's messy (hit CNN) -

My company was aware of the exploit 4 days ago and were patching like crazy - knowing it was GONNA come.

here's some info - http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/16/2247228.shtml?tid=220&tid=188

RB
kerssens
08-16-2005, 08:11 PM
awesome.
CrazyEyez
08-16-2005, 08:22 PM
Blech. My entire company was hit today (Minneapolis). 2k users either had spontaneous reboots every 5 minutes or so, or got a black screen upon reboot prompting you to do a repair install. Ugly. XP machines on my floor were unaffected. Consequently I did very little work from 2-5. /images/graemlins/grin.gif
sfer
08-16-2005, 08:54 PM
Got it at work. Everyone left early as IT tried to deal with it.
kerssens
08-16-2005, 08:57 PM
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Got it at work. Everyone left early as IT tried to deal with it.

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me too....I laughed and drank while I laughed.
tek
08-17-2005, 09:26 AM
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Windows 2000 and early XP boxes are vulunerable - causes reboots of the CPU

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Woo hoo! I'm glad I'm a cheap bastard that still uses Win98 /images/graemlins/laugh.gif
lucas9000
08-17-2005, 10:06 AM
the it person in my office is out this week. this could get ugly...
CrazyEyez
08-17-2005, 10:16 AM
adshasdfhk mine is effed up. They say my drive will need to be reimaged. I assume this means loss of data on c:\.
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RacersEdge
08-17-2005, 11:16 AM
Does it also slow down your OS? Mine was crawling last night - didn't get the reboot - but did get a reboot last week. I dowloaded the patch for XP SP2, rebooted, and it worked fine.