A new Zero day bug could crash Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Both new technologies, both have been officially released for less than a month, and to top it off, its related to the SMB protocol. It seems that we have been down this road before.
A couple of months ago Microsoft finally patched a different major problem with the SMB protocol. Just like that one, the recommendation is to turn of SMB, and close the ports for it. Now this is getting a bit ridiculous that something used for file sharing, that is a common protocol, and that has had major problems in Microsoft OSes before keeps having new issues.
The real question though is how long till there is a fix for it? The previous hole in SMB took a long time for them to fix. Now add on that Small Business, while they might not be using Server 2008 R2, could be starting to use Windows 7. How will this affect the adoption of Win 7 in the enterprise? Will it slow it down? Also does this hole affect Vista, XP, SBS 2008, SBS 2003, Server 2003, Server 2008 (non-R2)?
Hopefully, we will get answers.
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