Sasser: One picture says more than thousands of words can do...

paul cooke wrote: > <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> > > enjoy or not depending on your OS preferences... :) > Our experience where I work was that Sasser would cause the system to re-boot, not a BSOD. Either way, it was more than a little annoying. This is a rough gestimate, but probably 30% of our staff lost almost a whole day of work because of Sasser...hope the IT department factors that in to the cost of running windows. Todd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 T. Relyea wrote: >> <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> >> >> enjoy or not depending on your OS preferences... :) > > Our experience where I work was that Sasser would cause the system to > re-boot, not a BSOD. Isn't the default behavior these days to reboot instead of showing the BSOD? What if all those computers had been mirrored from a system where the defaults had been changed? Granted, I don't know enough about Sasser to say if that would cause BSODs instead, but it's a possibility. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAm4GPd1ZThqotgfgRApSsAJ9wT/9WFqzJ73oy8gj8OvU+PqFdRgCguRAQ DyTBXXK1OuJqwXT9RFC2Eug= =K27Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PeKaJe Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires. -- La Rochefoucauld

Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from T. Relyea: > This is a rough gestimate, but probably 30% of our staff lost almost a whole > day of work because of Sasser...hope the IT department factors that in to the > cost of running windows. How can they factor it in, they don't *own* Windows. <sarcasm> -- Free as in freedom

On Fri, 07 May 2004 08:02:49 GMT, paul cooke wrote: > <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> > > enjoy or not depending on your OS preferences... :) Of course it's a fake. Those computers are running some form of Windows 9x, as the "blue screen" is formatted with 9x information, and Sasser doesn't effect 9x. It's more likely that they're all running some form of "blue screeensaver"

> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@despam-funkenbusch.com> said: > Of course it's a fake. Those computers are running some form of Windows > 9x, as the "blue screen" is formatted with 9x information, and Sasser > doesn't effect 9x. Yes, and the text of the article says so. I wouldn't discount the possibility of a "photoshopped" picture, either. --

Soup popped his head over the parapet,saw what was going on and said > paul cooke wrote: > >> <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> >> >> enjoy or not depending on your OS preferences... :) >> > > Our experience where I work was that Sasser would cause the system to > re-boot, not a BSOD. Either way, it was more than a little annoying. > > This is a rough gestimate, but probably 30% of our staff lost almost > a whole day of work because of Sasser...hope the IT department > factors that in to the cost of running windows. > > Todd This is something I don't understand. I have downloaded the patch and am running a firewall and an antivirus so 'a much reduced' [never say no] chance of getting the sasser worm and I am a virtual computing ignoramus and yet companies with departments to deal with these issues are catching it . So how come I don't get this and yet companies with IT departments do ? -- Yours S. addy not usable (not that you would try it) ( ) Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! / \ www.killies.co.uk/forums/index.php

Bones wrote: >>Erik Funkenbusch <erik@despam-funkenbusch.com> said: > > >>Of course it's a fake. Those computers are running some form of Windows >>9x, as the "blue screen" is formatted with 9x information, and Sasser >>doesn't effect 9x. > > > Yes, and the text of the article says so. I wouldn't discount the > possibility of a "photoshopped" picture, either. > > If someone PS'd the photo, its a decent job, the range of monitors all display slightly differing lighting values, and contrast, and the 'distortion' of the text is pretty realistic as I can tell for the angle of the camera/monitor. I'm going with the BSOD screensaver, its kinda funny to leave that on lab machines, people come in move the mouse and its like: WOW! Windows fixed a BSOD by me moving the mouse! Course, the screesaver crashes all the time, still havent seen that picture of Anna Kournikova my friend emailed me! hahaha

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 07 May 2004 16:51:35 GMT, Soup <1@2.com> wrote: > Soup popped his head over the parapet,saw what was going on and said >> paul cooke wrote: >> >>> <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> >>> >>> enjoy or not depending on your OS preferences... :) >>> >> >> Our experience where I work was that Sasser would cause the system to >> re-boot, not a BSOD. Either way, it was more than a little annoying. >> >> This is a rough gestimate, but probably 30% of our staff lost almost >> a whole day of work because of Sasser...hope the IT department >> factors that in to the cost of running windows. >> >> Todd > > This is something I don't understand. > I have downloaded the patch and am running a firewall and an > antivirus so 'a much reduced' [never say no] chance of getting > the sasser worm and I am a virtual computing ignoramus and > yet companies with departments to deal with these issues are > catching it . > So how come I don't get this and yet companies with IT > departments do ? > You handle one machine, with few (if any) custom apps that tinker at a low level with the system. Many businesses, can't make some upgrades, because of stupid design decisions in their own custom apps. Not unique to MS-Windows of course, but a problem that is "enhanced" by the problems many people experience with various MS patches, and patches to patches, and patches to patches to patches... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAm8f+d90bcYOAWPYRAoNgAKCpfId7gKVllv/QIeSq/MUU3nX3CACfftm5 u8QtQTxUGElhiR1gpJMb5lM= =ZYDn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock If your voting could really change things, Congress would make it illegal.

In article <r8Pmc.4484$lc6.43706636@news-text.cableinet.net>, Soup wrote: > Soup popped his head over the parapet,saw what was going on and said >> paul cooke wrote: >> >>> <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> >>> >>> enjoy or not depending on your OS preferences... :) >>> >> >> Our experience where I work was that Sasser would cause the system to >> re-boot, not a BSOD. Either way, it was more than a little annoying. >> >> This is a rough gestimate, but probably 30% of our staff lost >> almost a whole day of work because of Sasser...hope the IT >> department factors that in to the cost of running windows. >> >> Todd > > This is something I don't understand. > I have downloaded the patch and am running a firewall and an > antivirus so 'a much reduced' [never say no] chance of getting > the sasser worm and I am a virtual computing ignoramus and > yet companies with departments to deal with these issues are > catching it . > So how come I don't get this and yet companies with IT > departments do ? The complexity of the their task is much greater than your task. -- Neil Cerutti "Where do they get all the skeletons with perfect teeth? How many people you know died with a perfect set of choppers in their puss?" --_Return of the Living Dead_.

Soup wrote: > > Soup popped his head over the parapet,saw what was going on and said > > paul cooke wrote: > > > >> <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> > >> > >> enjoy or not depending on your OS preferences... :) > >> > > > > Our experience where I work was that Sasser would cause the system to > > re-boot, not a BSOD. Either way, it was more than a little annoying. > > > > This is a rough gestimate, but probably 30% of our staff lost almost > > a whole day of work because of Sasser...hope the IT department > > factors that in to the cost of running windows. > > > > Todd > > This is something I don't understand. > I have downloaded the patch and am running a firewall and an > antivirus so 'a much reduced' [never say no] chance of getting > the sasser worm and I am a virtual computing ignoramus and > yet companies with departments to deal with these issues are > catching it . > So how come I don't get this and yet companies with IT > departments do ? Do you get paid overtime to fix your own computer? That probably explains quite a bit of Microsoft's popularity with IT technicians. -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com note to spammers: a Washington State resident ------------------------------------------------------------------ Time's fun when you're having flies. -- Kermit the Frog

I believe it was paul cooke who said... ><http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15767> AHAHHAAHahahahah -- Allow me to be the first to tell you that your post makes no sense. Or possibly makes sense but is incomprehensible. Hard to tell ...