A lot of things have changed since Slammer, ... Customers are more aware of the need to move into a maintenance mindset. Customers using Windows 2003 Server SP1 Service Pack 1 weren't impacted by the vulnerability because of changes we made. This is best example of learning how to make product more resilient to attack and have it be secure by default.
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Certainly, right now, we and our anti-virus partners are not seeing a widespread impact of this attack.Stephen Toulouse
We had been looking into detailing the history anyway and some customer questions drove the idea to write it up. We just wanted to make sure people had the history.
Stephen Toulouse
There might be privately reported issues that end up being in that update that haven't been disclosed yet. When we put out the bulletin, we talk about the information in the vulnerabilities with a beta, how does that work exactly Do you put out a kind-of-a-bulletin
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The huge responsibility we have is that we have to answer to our customers, and our customers represent potentially hundreds of millions of different configurations.
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We can't leave anybody behind. And unfortunately you might be introducing new problems. So whenever we look at even a quick hack ... it's got to be of quality. That's what customers have told us time and again.
Stephen Toulouse
Our test and engineering plan for that update that we began two weeks ago is on track to have that update ready for Tuesday.
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