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Old 09-17-2003, 11:51 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Laff @ work, NOT... Good Ol Microsoft..

Well,

We worked all night and all day to patch our vulnerable machines (MS03-039 and MS03-037, and one I can't remember). I'm getting used to these 50 hr work week with an extra 18hr shift thrown in the middle.

Yesterday we got a nice shock. Let me set the scene, we are feeling all nice and comfy, y'know that fully patched fuzzy feeling. All of a sudden the calls come dripping in "network slow", "can't login", and "Word has hung"..
Huh, all us techs ask "WTF!", "looks like a WINS problem, no name resolution".. "Whats going on with our DNS servers", how's our DC's.. etc, etc..

Turns out the WebClient service is running on all our XP boxes (only a few thousand or so), and everytime you try to access a network resource it goes off to try and find the holy grail or some such thing cause the fucker hasn't got a sense of direction and couldn't find it's pecker in its pants. Solution - DISABLE the WebClient service on every PC. Well, I didn't have fuck all to do today anyway, we'll ignore the lost couple of days because of MS required patching I had to do. ARGH!

Anyway, rant over, but anyone else found this. Just wondering...and learning Linux

PS: Thanks Bill, and a big up to your marketing team.
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Old 09-17-2003, 11:59 AM   #2 (permalink)
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