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SQL Saphhire: Woe to Those Who Don't Patch: Page 2 of 2

As you're probably aware, a massive worm attack using Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 surfaced over the weekend. It's a nasty worm; reports on various lists claim packet loss on NAPs (network access points) reaching 90 percent. Those of you...
Mike Fratto
January 27, 2003

If you don't have time to read the advisories, you can have them sent to
you, or you can subscribe to alert newsletters like our own Security Alert Consensus.

Yes. Bite the bullet and get a stupid PassPort account. Have fun; just
make sure you supply an e-mail address you actually read--or at least
scan. And then put those patches and hotfixes into your calendar and
roll them out.

For this particular problem, install the patch and don't forget any
MSDE (Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine) deployments. Users with Visio or
Visual Studio installed, to name two, will need to be patched. The
patch only works with SQL Server Service Pack 2, which you can download
here.
.

Otherwise, get SQL
Server Service Pack 3.

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