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M$ Surrenders to Blaster Worm

MisterMe

MisterMe

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This is not a rumor.

According to this Seattle Times article, M$ has shutdown its WindowsUpdate site in order to foil the Blaster worm. According to Netcraft, M$ replaced its Windows 2003 server running IIS with an Akamai Linux server running AkamaiGHost.
 
thats pretty smart of them, i just find it funny that they had to do it with linux. oh the embarasment.

iJon
 
"Hey, I'm Bill...I'm tired of having to deal with patching up my poor attempt of an OS and passing it off as the next best thing...it's becoming a joke now, I cannot even run my own company off of my own product anymore. In order to take over the world, I decided I needed something better than...crap...I'm Bill and I'm a switcher."
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
"Hey, I'm Bill...I'm tired of having to deal with patching up my poor attempt of an OS and passing it off as the next best thing...it's becoming a joke now, I cannot even run my own company off of my own product anymore. In order to take over the world, I decided I needed something better than...crap...I'm Bill and I'm a switcher."
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Oh, man, you just made my day!:D :eek:
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
"Hey, I'm Bill...I'm tired of having to deal with patching up my poor attempt of an OS and passing it off as the next best thing...it's becoming a joke now, I cannot even run my own company off of my own product anymore. In order to take over the world, I decided I needed something better than...crap...I'm Bill and I'm a switcher."
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OMG!!! That would be such a great thing for apple if that happend. Imagine Bill trying to apply at apple.
 
Its up and running.

I just checked out Microsoft update, has this is a Windows 98 computer. Well Its up and running. Not that I tried updateding anything. Updateding just cuz's more problems.
 
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"Hey, I'm Bill...I'm tired of having to deal with patching up my poor attempt of an OS and passing it off as the next best thing...it's becoming a joke now, I cannot even run my own company off of my own product anymore. In order to take over the world, I decided I needed something better than...crap...I'm Bill and I'm a switcher."

Powerbook G5: make it your signature.

When I owned a PC, Windows was driving me grazy, now it gives me a lot of fun.
 
Man, if my Xbox gets a virus, I am so giving up on MS completely...I've been wondering that since Xbox live uses broadband and the Xbox itself has a HD...and the Xbox runs on a stripped down Windows OS...that can't be good odds. I dunno, I usually keep it disconnected when I am not using it, though. I've noticed my Xbox has been freezing like crazy on me lately, but that could just be scratched discs.
 
Imagine what would have happened if the virus was programmed to flood microsoft.com itself, or both microsoft.com and windowsupdate.com simultaniously.:D
 
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