10-September-09, 04:19 PM
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| |  Microsoft Kicks windows 2000 to the curb
 | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | | Microsoft took the unusual step today and skipped patching one of the vulnerabilities addressed in its monthly security update, saying that crafting a fix was "infeasible." The omission leaves users running Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (SP4) vulnerable to attack.
Earlier today, Microsoft delivered five critical updates that patched eight vulnerabilities in Windows, including one that the company won't bother fixing in Windows 2000 Server SP4. The operating system's support doesn't end until July 2010; until then, Microsoft was supposed to provide updates.
"That's really strange," said Jason Miller, Security and Data Team Manager, Shavlik Technologies. "I haven't seen them do this before."
Miller was referring to MS09-048 , the security update that patches a trio of vulnerabilities in Windows' implementation of TCP/IP, the Web's default suite of connection protocols. One of update's three vulnerabilities, the only one marked "critical," in fact, was patched in Vista and Server 2008, but not for Windows Server SP4.
"Microsoft is not issuing a patch for the vulnerability," continued Miller. "They're stating that creating a patch to address the vulnerability is 'infeasible to build.' With this in mind, a vulnerability that affects Windows 2000 is about to be made known and administrators cannot simply patch their machines."
"The architecture to properly support TCP/IP protection does not exist on Microsoft Windows 2000 systems, making it infeasible to build the fix. To do so would require re-architecting a very significant amount of the Windows 2000 SP4 operating system, not just the affected component. The product of such a re-architecture effort would be sufficiently incompatible ... that there would be no assurance that applications designed to run on Windows 2000 SP4 would continue to operate on the updated system." | |  | |  | |
source: Microsoft: Windows 2000 too old to update
i guess this is the only way they will get people to buy 2008 =P |
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