Just check out the list of u$oft products that have the 'slammer' problem and realise that u$oft di not bother to release patches for many of them even though u$oft was aware of the problem. After reading the list, one can only wonder if there is any u$oft product that is safe to install.
S/W susceptable to 'Slammer' * .NET Framework SDK * ASP.NET Web Matrix * BizTalk Server 2002 Partner Edition * Host Integration Server 2000 * Office XP Premium, Professional, Developer * Project Server 2002 * Retail Management System Headquarters 1.0 * Small Business Server 2000 * SQL Server 2000 - Enterprise Edition, Developer Edition, Personal Edition (RTM, SP1, SP2) * Visio Enterprise Network Tools * Visual FoxPro 7.0 and 8.0 beta * Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect editions * Visual Basic .NET Standard 2002, Visual C++ .NET Standard 2002, Visual C# .NET Standard 2002 * Windows Enterprise Server 2003 RC1, only if UDDI is enabled * Windows Server 2003 RC1, only if UDDI is enabled * Application Center 2000 RTM, SP1, SP2 * Encarta Class Server 1.0 * Host Integration Server 2000 * Microsoft Business Solutions Customer Relationship Manager * Microsoft Class Server 2.0 * Operations Manager 2000 RTM, SP1 * Retail Management System Store Operations 1.0 * SharePoint Team Services 2.0 beta 1 * Small Business Manager 6.0, 6.2, and 7.0 * Windows XP Embedded Tools To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe man-bytes-dog" (the subject is ignored).