full-disclosure - Loss of windowsupdate.com breaks SUS?

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From: weezspam at yahoo.com (Weezer Hutchins)
Subject: Loss of windowsupdate.com breaks SUS?

Hehe, it's too bad they didn't take a random sample of M$'s IP
address range (207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255) to attack, instead
of the obsolete windowsupdate.com. (it's a conspiracy I tell you)

Georgi Guninski wrote:
> 
> m$ removing windowsupdate.com sets a quite dangerous precedent and gives a good 
> motivation to worm writers IMHO.
> a lot of people claimed the worm is lame and bad written, but the worm's goal 
> was to DoS windowsupdate.com and it rm'ed it permanently (judging from news 
> sources).
> according to some linux is the biggest threat to m$, but IMHO windoze has become 
> the biggest threat to m$. 10x for the windoze m$.
> 
> btw, the following joke comes to mind (quite off-topic, though).
> The horse, being the biggest animal in .bg claimed that no animal can bring him 
> down (basically turning the horse on his back on the earth).
> No animal could do it.
> Then the mosquitoes came, said "We can", and did it.
> 
> georgi
> 
> Darren Bennett wrote:
> > I can confirm that it is indeed broken. There is also an article at
> > www.slashdot.org that discusses this.
> > 
> > 	-Darren
> > 
> 

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