As NMRC's "Simple Nomad" agrees this is one of the lamest exploits so far this year; but it WORKS 100% of the time!
The author reports "Windows XP client... running the XP firewall" are protected. This is true, but not everyone runs XP SP2 with the nifty firewall. Worse, some XP SP2 cliets don'...
Reportedly Microsoft is prioritizing to Windows Vista and is planning to release SP3 "the latter half of 2007". It is important to apply the configuration change mentioned, because waiting for the next Service Pack is not a solution....
The author reports "Windows XP client... running the XP firewall" are protected. This is true, but not everyone runs XP SP2 with the nifty firewall. Worse, some XP SP2 cliets don'...
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