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Exploit out for MS06-040

The big computer security news of the day is the release of exploit code publicly for MS06-040. The patch of course was released Tuesday and it is fairly critical to get the update installed. This is…

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The big computer security news of the day is the release of exploit code publicly for MS06-040. The patch of course was released Tuesday and it is fairly critical to get the update installed. This is "wormable" It CURRENTLY affects all Windows 2000 systems and XP (with no service pack) as well as SP1. It currently doesn't seem to work with SP2 of Win XP, or with Windows 2003 or NT4. A bit more information is at the incidents.org link above.