Archive for January, 2009
IE7 and IE8 are operating systems ?!
You may have seen this if you have logged in to MSDN in recent months. Now all of us know that Internet Explorer components are used in the system all over the place and they are an integral part of the Operating System package. But listing them under Operating Systems in MSDN downloads is rather [...]
Conficker/Downadup worm strikes hard
Conficker worm (W32/Confick-A, W32/Confick-B, W32/Confick-C, W32/Confick-D, W32/Confick-E), aka Downadup, aka Kido (W32.Downadup, W32.Downadup.B) is going around and is capable of spreading very fast on Windows XP/Vista machines. This worm exploits1 a remote code execution vulnerability in the Server service responsible for file/printer sharing functionalities. The vulnerability is apparently because of a buffer overrun bug in [...]
XP Service Pack 3 installation blues
I have applied XP Service Pack 3 on many of my hosts but there is this particular machine, that refused to install Service Pack 3. After doing massive amount of copying of DLLs and what not, it would give a particularly terse Access denied messagebox and go on to revert changes it did earlier. The [...]
Hardware licensing
Capacity On Demand (COD), Hardware Licensing and Processor/Memory hot swap/hot spare
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