[Wolves] NT Dead?

Ron Wellsted wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Apr 1 07:59:00 2003


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, s parkes wrote:

> >From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.freeserve.co.uk>
> >Reply-To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
> >To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
> >Subject: Re: [Wolves] NT Dead?
> >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:24:44 +0000 (GMT)
> >
> >On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, s parkes wrote:
> >
> > > The register is reporting that MS have declared NT unfit for fixing.
> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29985.html
> > >
> > > the architecture of NT is so poor that it is impossible to fix the 
> >latest
> > > exploit lol
> >
> >No, that's overstating it somewhat.  The article only mentions this issue
> >affecting version 4, and in fact states that fixes exist for Windows NT 5
> >and 5.1.
> >
> arn't those OS's normally refered to as win2k?
> 
> sparkes, pendanic as usual

Windows 2000 = NT 5.0
Windows XP = NT 5.1
as reported by micro$ofts own utilities.

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