In our effort to put this security fix on a fast track, a pre-release version of the update was briefly and inadvertently posted on a security community site. There has been some discussion and pointers on subsequent sites to the pre-release codebut we recommend that customers disregard the postings.
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As is our normal practice for security bulletins, we document the existence of any additional defense in depth product behavioral changes, as well as the area of functionality where the change occurred so that customers can assess the impact to their environments. However, providing more detail on internal product changes could serve to aid attackers.Mike Reavey
Our information at this time leads us to believe that this is having little to no impact on corporate networks.
Mike Reavey
We want to make sure we don't give attackers any additional information that could be used against our customers. There is a balance between providing information to assess risk and giving out information that aids attackers.
Mike Reavey
This situation is fairly limited in the number of customers who have reported it, but we wanted to make sure people were aware we had guidance on it. We're still keeping an eye out for public exploit code for MS05-051 and have not seen any as yet. We'll be watching through the weekend, so if anything changes that you need to know about we'll update you.
Mike Reavey
Yes we are aware of some of the information floating around about problems after installing the MS05-051 update on Windows 2000 systems.
Mike Reavey
We felt it was in the best interest of our customers to not release this update until it undergoes further testing.
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