One of the great things about having your "Legacy Apps" in an XP VM (under Centos x64, and accessed via RDC), is you have a very simple solution to this.
1: Always snapshot before patching. 2: Apply patch. 3: Test 4: If fail revert to snapshot! Loving VMWare since 2000. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Larry Seltzer > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:37 AM > To: Joel Esler; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [funsec] Another bad patch? > > This is what you get for running XP. > > Serves you all right. > > Larry Seltzer > Contributing Editor, PC Magazine > [email protected] > http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Joel Esler > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [funsec] Another bad patch? > > We've had a couple reports of this at the Internet Storm Center as > well. > > Lots of Blue screens. > > J > > On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & > Hannah wrote: > > > Argh. > > > > > http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/winxp-users-hold-off-on- > installi > ng.html > > > > On the desktop machine I've got Auto Updates full on. So, of course, > yesterday > > the machine patched and rebooted while I was away from the desk (it > seems to > > sense lack of user presence somehow). And, of course, I didn't see > this until this > > morning. > > > > I've lucked out and I didn't get a blue screen. > > -- > Joel Esler > 302-223-5974 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
