Burn the patches to a CD on a workstation. I keep a cd or two full of
patches and drivers for building/rebuilding workstations/servers. Nothing
like needing to install a network driver, but the driver is on the
network....
-----Original Message-----
From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Code Red Rant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Kevin,
>
> read my post: In my situation, I had to put the server online to get
access
> to the patches. Maybe MS should be mailing these services packs out the
way
> AOL sends out free access promo CD's <G>.
>
> --Charles
True - but turning off the IIS and Index Server services before going on
the public net would have prevented the hack.
al
>
>
> Don't take this the wrong way, but why was your server on a public network
> before it was ready?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Brumbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: OT:Code Red Rant
>
> Last night I am building a test box for 2000 AD. I had to format a 2nd
> drive to load AD and stuff. It was going to take a while so I left and
> went
> home. When I got in this morning, I had messages from other people saying
> that they had got the code red. I hadn't even got to the updates yet.
> What
> a pain! So now I am rebuilding. Will other people please fix this. It
is
> such a pain, our logs are filled with hundreds of ip addresses trying to
> infect us. We got spam abuse, why can't we have a place that puts
people's
> ip in for not fixing their virus problems!
>
> Luke L. Brumbaugh
> System Administrator,MCSE
> Ultryx Corporation
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>
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