Re: So how secure is Windows XP with all current updates?

From: Paul Adare - MVP - Microsoft Virtual PC (padare_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 06/23/04

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    Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 05:29:44 -0400

    In article <edcOEWMWEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, in the
    microsoft.public.security news group, Kent W. England [MVP]
    <kwe@mvps.org> says...

    > The Blaster worm is an example of an infection that ***got into patched
    > machines*** that didn't have extra firewall protection to block the NetBIOS
    > RPC port(s).

    How do you reconcile these two contradictory statements? (My emphasis
    *** added)

    > ***Anyone who was using Windows Automatic Updates was protected***,
    > since the MS patch came out before the exploit.
    >

    The first statement says that Blaster infected patched machines while
    the second statement says that those who were patched were protected. 

    -- 
Paul Adare
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
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