Using NT/2k/XP/2k3? Now is a good time to patch.

[kandrathe]

Ah, well. Not bitten by any worms yet, but why tempt fate? I'm doing the service pack dance tonight on all my boxes with MS OS's at home. What a royal pain! I just went out to Windows Update and found out I've got some 20 critical fixes to install, with about 4 single threaded. I can't wait until my 3 year old is a bit older, and he can take over the network admin duties. :D

I'm trying not to make him into a geek, but with parents like his he has little hope. Me a life long software engineer, and his mother a statistical demographer.

BTW, I got a grin today with the Nachi worm which goes out and attempts to apply MS service packs to repair the RPC based SANS worm exploit. Still evil, but a funny evil.

Edit: Excrement! 2.5 hours later and the W2K SP4 updater has left me BSOD after a half install with a reboot claiming my winsrv.dll is missing... All I can do is shake my head. Must now reinstall the OS and all the software on that box. If I could get most of this software for Linux I'd switch today.