If you are having problems with WU can I suggest you try this URL https://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp Cheers Nathan -----Original Message----- From: Jithen Singh [mailto:jsingh(a)net4u.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2003 10:06 a.m. To: 'Simon Byrnand'; 'Barry Murphy' Cc: 'NZ NOG' Subject: RE: [nznog] blaster worm According to articles posted on the web, Microsoft installed Windows Update from scratch (fresh install), and since then, updates that needed downloading have failed to show. Some have suggested changing the language to EN-US and this will fix the problem, but I have yet to see proper solution as yet. Regards Jithen -----Original Message----- From: Simon Byrnand [mailto:simon(a)igrin.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2003 9:57 a.m. To: Barry Murphy Cc: NZ NOG Subject: Re: [nznog] blaster worm

Nathan,

Are you aware of microsoft being affected from the DDoS of this virus yet? Seeing as you people will probably hear first off.

P.S. I dont want you to loose your job so you can mail me off list if you like:)

Barry

I don't know about direct effects of the worm, but both windows update and the microsoft sites in general seemed to be down for many hours yesterday afternoon.... maybe it was just a huge influx of people trying to get at the patches, or maybe some server upgrades went awry...(apparently MS were going to increase their web serving capacity...) Also I tried Windows Update from a Windows 2000 machine just now and although it appears to be working, all is not well because it reports "There are no updates available for your computer" when I know full well that it normally keeps insisting that I install the .NET stuff and Media player 9. (And a few other things under the windows section that I normally refuse to install) Perhaps MS have temporarily suspended downloading of "non critical" updates to reduce the server load from people who go to windows update primarily to get the security related updates.... Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog