RE: FN-FORUM: Blasted worm! any yet more from Satan

date posted 14th August 2003 15:27

Hi Nick,

MS Update site fell apart with an overload yesterday afternoon about 2:30
while updating the last of a clients 13 XP terminals, I guess it
disintegrates when the US East Coast wake up. Eventually went in and
finished it off at 6 this morning.

However the 98 update was working OK 10 mins ago (15:15) since I just got
another alert on the broken, broken updates of the broken DirectX 9.0.

rgds

Alan S

On 14 August 2003 15:39, Nick Stanton (Kerensa Consulting Ltd)
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>
> Hi everyone
>
> Just back from holiday and found I had an infected win2k-pro PC!
>
> I've been to the Microsoft window update site and can't seem to get the
> update to work. It tells me which updates I need, then it goes through
the
> licensing agrrement, and then.....nothing.
>
> Is it overloaded do you think?
>
> I have manually removed the msblast.exe file, fixed the registry and the
RPC
> service.
>
> Last time I tried using firewall software (Zone Alarm) it screwed up
DWMX.
> Maybe I need a separate firewall box now
>
> Any ideas about how to make the Windows Update actually do anything?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
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