All XP Users MUST Install the new XP Service Pack 1 NOW!!
 

Like the title says.

Please visit here, for more details:
http://www.grc.com

Or go passed the intro page, directly to the source here:
http://grc.com/default.htm

I'll quote this page:

"Attention Windows XP Users

A little-known but critical vulnerability exists in Windows XP.

It has recently been repaired in Service Pack 1.

This vulnerability allows the files contained in any specified directory on your system to be deleted if you click on a specially formed URL. This URL could appear anywhere: sent in malicious eMail, in a chat room, in a newsgroup posting, on a malicious web page, or even executed when your computer merely visits a malicious web page. It is likely to be widely exploited soon.

This vulnerability is so dangerous that it would be irresponsible for me to say more. Microsoft has known of this problem for months and has, inexplicably, done nothing before now. Although XP's Service Pack 1 is not small (approx 30 MB for express installation or 140 MB for the network install), and even though a much quicker and easier solution to this problem exists, the only thing I can safely recommend (without revealing too much) is to urge all XP users to somehow obtain and install Service Pack 1 immediately. (If you have a slow Internet connection, perhaps a friend can download the executable Service Pack file and burn it onto a CD for you?)

This problem does not affect any systems other than Windows XP. If you have any friends or co-workers running Windows XP, please urge them to update their systems' too. Once the details of this vulnerability have leaked through other channels I will provide additional information."

Unless of course you don't have a legit copy.. At which point, DO NOT INSTALL ANY UPDATES.

www.grcsucks.com

Steve Gibson isn't much of a "security specialist" more of a media whore. He overinflates lots of issues, like this one. Installing SP1 is a good idea in general though, unless you have a hacked version of XP ;)

Rediculous!

My average download speed is usualy about 250kb/sec

http://www.digitalpimpshit.com/wtf.gif

you can still install SP1 on a FCKGW cdkey...
theres programs out there to change your Prod ID...
not that I need it or anything...

I'm sure everybody here has a legit copy - so that shouldn't be an issue.

grcsucks.com sucks.

Here was one link on changing the XP Product ID, Microsoft got them already...

http://www.labmice.net/WindowsXP/articles/changeID.htm

:1orglaugh

If you have a good id, however, they tell you how to do it themselves.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;q321636&

I actually just bought a real version of XP Pro yesterday. I feel proud.

And I got it for only $90 -- gotta love the school store.

For all you w/ illegal copies

http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...Id=350&dPage=2

ya i found that out on my laptop earlier :uhoh

it is pretty d4mn dangerous - i tried the exploit with a test directory (c:\test), went to the url and lo and behold, all the stuff was gone from there.

if you ever see "help and support" come up when surfing, youre fucked. i recommend you shut off your computer and restart - dont close it,

I allmost belived that this thing was for real...

http://www.grcsucks.com/ states: "We value your help and like it when you refer other poeple to this site, but please do not link to this site and brand Mr. Gibson as a scam, he is not (per se). This site questions the motives of Mr. Gibson, criticizes him and his works by trying to demystifying what he is doing. What you are going to find on this site are Researched Facts and Opinions, Opinions however are refered to as what they are : opinions not facts."

Anyone that a lot of people look up to will have more than a few people who don't like them, anyway.

Anyone who does not believe Steve Gibson is a genious, and/or thinks he is just a media whore: please read this page: http://grc.com/spinrite.htm and all the pages that follow it (particularly: http://grc.com/srphysics.htm ).

If you are not completely amazed by the outside-of-the-box thinking that occured during the creation of this product, then you don't understand what he is saying. Imagine a scandisk program that will tell you your HD is fucked before it becomes fucked. Sounds like magic? It's not... but it appears to be until you understand how to works, because it sounds impossible.

You can't knock someone for being a good marketer, every company has someone that markets their products. Besides, his products are amazing.

Oh yeah, he is making a patch for this problem for free, so ou dont have to download 30+ megs from MS, and install it.