{"id":139,"date":"2005-08-24T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=139"},"modified":"2005-08-24T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:25:48","slug":"zotob-worm-hole-also-affects-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/zotob-worm-hole-also-affects-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Zotob worm hole also affects Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The plug-and-play vulnerability that caused havoc for Windows 2000 users last week also holds a serious risk for some Windows XP users, Microsoft said Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 1 in a specific configuration are vulnerable to worm attacks similar to the ones that hit Windows 2000 systems, Microsoft said in a security advisory published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Zotob worm and its offshoots, plus several other worms, downed Windows 2000 computers, including systems at ABC, CNN and The New York Times. All the worms exploited a security hole in the plug-and-play feature in Windows, for which Microsoft provided a fix earlier this month and rated as &#8220;critical&#8221; for Windows 2000. <\/p>\n<p>=>  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1009_22-5842359.html?tag=nl.e539\">click here<\/a> for more info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plug-and-play vulnerability that caused havoc for Windows 2000 users last week also holds a serious risk for some Windows XP users, Microsoft said Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}