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The Bright Side of Blaster
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-14

The Blaster worm has infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines, shut down the Maryland state DMV, put network administrators on overtime, crashed countless consumer's home computers, and on Saturday it will attempt a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft's Windows Update site. But that doesn't make it all bad.

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MS has rights to hack your machine... in some cases(?!) 2003-08-21
Anonymous
I think with Windows 2000 SP3 the license was broad enough that Microsoft could auto-put any code they wanted on your PC.

Also, some lawyers say if you upgraded to SP4, you have still granted them permission. But if you skipped SP3 and went straight to SP4 you're in the clear....

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