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Microsoft says turn off Windows feature to protect Windows
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| There's no real reason for SMB2, (Server Message Block 2),
| a Microsoft network file and print-sharing protocol that
| ships with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows
| 7, to exist. All it does is duplicate the basic network
| file and print functionality that Windows has provided for
| over a decade. But, SMB2 is in there, it is broken, and,
| now it can be used to take over PCs.
|
| Microsoft admits that the problem is real. Mark Wodrich and
| Jonathan Ness, part of the MSRC (Microsoft Security
| Response Center) engineering team wrote that an
| experimental exploit is already out and that it can gain
| "complete control of the targeted system and can be
| launched by an unauthenticated user." Just what you didn't
| need.
|
| There is a way to fix it. Well, sort of. You have to turn
| SMB2 off.
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http://www.itworld.com/security/78261/microsoft-says-turn-windows-feature-protect-windows
Recent:
Microsoft: No TCP/IP patches for you, XP
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| Microsoft late last week said it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs
| it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
|
| The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list |
| that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4.
|
| [...]
|
| The bugs in question are in Windows' implementation of TCP/IP, the Web's
| default suite of connection protocols. All three of the vulnerabilities
| highlighted in the MS09-048 update were patched in Vista and Server 2008.
| Only two of the trio affect Windows Server 2000 and Windows XP, Microsoft
| said in the accompanying advisory, which was refreshed on Thursday.
|
| [...]
|
| During the Q&A, however, Windows users repeatedly asked Microsoft's
| security team to explain why it wasn't patching XP, or if, in certain
| scenarios, their machines might be at risk. "We still use Windows XP and we
| do not use Windows Firewall," read one of the user questions. "We use a
| third-party vendor firewall product. Even assuming that we use the Windows
| Firewall, if there are services listening, such as remote desktop, wouldn't
| then Windows XP be vulnerable to this?"
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138007/Microsoft_No_TCP_IP_patches_for_you_XP
No third service pack for Windows Server 2003
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| Microsoft has outlined some support changes
| coming in July 2010 for wrinkly versions of its
| Windows Server platform.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/16/windows_server_2003_no_third_service_pack/
No third service pack for Windows Server 2003
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| Microsoft has outlined some support changes
| coming in July 2010 for wrinkly versions of its
| Windows Server platform.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/16/windows_server_2003_no_third_service_pack/
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