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For those of you who haven't patched your machines yet, there is a new worm going around that exploits this vulnerability. However, it actually patches your machine and then self-destructs on 1 January 2004.

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phongn wrote:For those of you who haven't patched your machines yet, there is a new worm going around that exploits this vulnerability. However, it actually patches your machine and then self-destructs on 1 January 2004.

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...I can't help but think that whoever made this is trying to fix the problem...

LMFAO!!!!!

I've seen those kinds of worms before too. Still hilarious.

Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that I have a copy of XP I didn't pay for, how am I supposed to update?

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that I have a copy of XP I didn't pay for, how am I supposed to update?

You can still download the updates, just not the service packs. Or at least that's what friend x with an illegal copy tells me.

Still a worm and still very illegal!

Go to Windows Update and patch. There are also methods to change your VLK so that you might apply SP1, but they will not be mentioned here.

phongn wrote:Go to Windows Update and patch. There are also methods to change your VLK so that you might apply SP1, but they will not be mentioned here.

Not worth it IMO.

I like the idea of a worm that patches your system. Its like renegade white-hat virus writing. A kind of rough-and-tumble good guy. An outlaw who tries to do the right thing. A cowboy. A-..

Rye wrote:

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that I have a copy of XP I didn't pay for, how am I supposed to update?

You can still download the updates, just not the service packs. Or at least that's what friend x with an illegal copy tells me.

That's only because the original serial # was blacklisted.

Well this is intriguing, a virus writer who writes a viral antivirus...

Now only if we had more of these virii, then cyberspace would be a better place.