people, people, please don't panic.
Head over to Steve Gibsons place (grc.com), check out the secuity now section - his pod casts with Leo Laporte.
Steve has very kindly offered to come up with a patch for 9x and ME if Microsoft dont and there's really a problem (which at the time of writing is still debateable for those two systems as they do it differently enough that they may have escaped, but check back on that bit often as it seems to change often.)
They got a vuln checker and so far those I've tried it on (XPSP2 boxes) are fine now they got updated by MS. At grc They got a link for the patch for xp & 2000, which I used on my 2000 Pro machines and that's come up fine too. Seems this may be reduced to some older printers not working after patching.
Do yourself a big favour, go to Steve Gibson's place, listen to the handful of pod casts since end of December onwards, learn the latest on we are facing and do the things they suggest, they seem to work. And that's about as good as it's likely to get from the sound of things so far.
Stay cool and calm, it'll be fine.
Hope this helps.
Head over to Steve Gibsons place (grc.com), check out the secuity now section - his pod casts with Leo Laporte.
Steve has very kindly offered to come up with a patch for 9x and ME if Microsoft dont and there's really a problem (which at the time of writing is still debateable for those two systems as they do it differently enough that they may have escaped, but check back on that bit often as it seems to change often.)
They got a vuln checker and so far those I've tried it on (XPSP2 boxes) are fine now they got updated by MS. At grc They got a link for the patch for xp & 2000, which I used on my 2000 Pro machines and that's come up fine too. Seems this may be reduced to some older printers not working after patching.
Do yourself a big favour, go to Steve Gibson's place, listen to the handful of pod casts since end of December onwards, learn the latest on we are facing and do the things they suggest, they seem to work. And that's about as good as it's likely to get from the sound of things so far.
Stay cool and calm, it'll be fine.
Hope this helps.