Sasser Patch From M$ Shrinks my Screen!

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Hello All,

I have a Dell Latitude CPt Laptop running NT 4.0 SP 6a and downloaded
Micro$oft's patch to prevent the Sasser worm from volunteering my CPU cycles
to replicating itself (KB835732). I rebooted and low and behold - the video
area on my screen was about the size of a post card. I uninstalled the
hotfix and everything is normal again. I cannot find anything on Google
about this - has anyone seen this? Am I doomed to upgrade to Win2K or XP?
I am installing a software firewall for now.

Thanks in advance,

Jerome

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

True, the Sasser worm does not effect NT 4.0 directly (the worm sends out XP
code 80% of the time, and Win2K code 20% of the time) - but the same
security hole exists in NT 4.0's lsass.exe as it does in XP or Win2K. Any
new variant of the worm could effect NT nodes the same way. According to
Microsoft here is the info about the security hole and all OS's that are
effected:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/s [...] 4-011.mspx

Jerome


"Lawrence Glasser" <lglasser@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:40992600.B5859AF6@spamcop.net...
> Jerome wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have a Dell Latitude CPt Laptop running NT 4.0 SP 6a and downloaded
> > Micro$oft's patch to prevent the Sasser worm from volunteering my CPU
cycles
> > to replicating itself (KB835732). I rebooted and low and behold - the
video
> > area on my screen was about the size of a post card. I uninstalled the
> > hotfix and everything is normal again. I cannot find anything on Google
> > about this - has anyone seen this? Am I doomed to upgrade to Win2K or
XP?
> > I am installing a software firewall for now.
>
> From the Windows Update page:
>
> - If your computer is running one of the following, you can help protect
it from
> - the Sasser Worm and its variants by installing the appropriate update
below:
>
> - For Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Service Pack 2 or greater - "Security
Update for
> - Windows 2000 (KB835732)"
>
> - For Microsoft Windows XP - "Security Update for Windows XP (KB835732)"
>
> My interpretation is that it's not even applicable to NT.
>
> Larry