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  • How to protect your Exchange from attack
  • Small Business Server upgrade pack
  • Need another web graphics tool?
  • Assorted quick downloads for Microsoft tools
  • Outlook 98 bugs and workrounds
  • Letter to Santa.

HOTFIXES FOR NEW DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK FOR MS EXCHANGE
Protect your Exchange site from attack

I don't normally quote directly from Microsoft, but this is one of those instances where it is better to get it direct from the horses' mouth...

Summary

Microsoft was recently alerted by Internet Security Systems, Inc.'s X-Force team (http://www.iss.net) of an issue with the way Microsoft(R) Exchange Server 5.5 and 5.0 process certain SMTP and NNTP protocol commands. By exploiting this vulnerability, a malicious attacker could cause specific Exchange services to stop responding. This issue does not affect Exchange Server 4.0.

This issue involves a denial of service vulnerability that can potentially be used by someone with malicious intent to unexpectedly cause multiple components of the Microsoft Exchange Server to stop. It cannot be used to crash the underlying operating system, or affect other non-Exchange components on the system.

The purpose of this bulletin is to inform Microsoft customers of this issue, its applicability to Microsoft products, and the availability of countermeasures Microsoft has developed to further secure its customers.

Affected Software Versions

  • Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.5
  • Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.0 (including 5.0 Service Pack 1 and 2)

    What Microsoft is Doing

    The Microsoft Exchange team has produced hotfixes for Microsoft Exchange Server versions 5.5 and 5.0.

    What customers should do

    Microsoft strongly recommends that customers running Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 or 5.0 should install the appropriate hotfixes. These hotfixes are currently available at the following locations.

    Exchange Server 5.0 ALL LANGUAGES:
    Post-SP2-STORE
    Post-SP2-IMS

    Exchange Server 5.5 ENGLISH:
    STORE-FIX
    IMS-FIX

    Microsoft Exchange 4.0 is not affected.

    NEW SERVICE PACK FOR MS SMALL BUSINESS SERVER DOWNLOADABLE

    There is a new Service Pack For Microsoft Small Business Server now downloadable. This latest upgrade to SBS offers a few interesting enhancements, including many that were requested by customers. These include updates to IE, client memory clients, and much more.

    SBS Service Pack

    LIQUID MOTION: Microsoft's Web Animation product

    Microsoft have entered the somewhat crowded fray of web graphics tools with Liquid Motion. It does have some quite nifty features and is of course built to be integrated into the wider MS environment including Front Page and InterDev.

    If you are a web developer you should certainly check out the demo at the MS web site.

    Liquid Motion

    OTHER QUICK MICROSOFT DOWNLOADS

    New Microsoft Access Address Book

    Thesis and Term Paper Templates for Word 97

    Latest Office Assistant, F1 the Robot

    New version of Intellipoint (version 2.2)

    OUTLOOK 98 SAVING PROBLEM

    Have you tried the export option in Outlook 98 to save to another location on the network. You'll find that the exported file ends up being saved on your local hard drive.

    This is a known bug with Outlook 98 which does not understand the "UNC" path format (i.e. \\computer\shared) and treats it as a local file. Outlook will export to a networked drive if it is mapped to a drive letter (i.e. X:\filename)

    SEEN ON THE INTERNET

    Subject: Re: Marx 
    Newsgroups: uk.misc
    
    On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:27:48 +0000, MMM wrote:
    >This is the third in the series of letters
    >Marx [age 25] wrote to his friend, Arnold Ruge,
    >during 1843 -- it is also the last in the eight 
    >letter exchange.  Marx and Ruge would include
    >the entire series in the first and only edition
    >of their joint venture, the _Deutsch-Franzosische 
    >Jahrbucher_, February 1844.  
    
    This is about the seventeenth in a series of letters
    I (age 8) wrote to Santa Claus during 1975 - it is also
    the last in that year's exchange.
    
    Dear Santa
    
    I have been a good boy this yeer and I would like
    a subuteyo for Xmas please, with the floodlights as well,
    and the Liverpool away strip team. Can I also have a
    chocolat oringe and emancipation of the werking classes.
    
    Love
    
    Iain
    
    
    
    
    
    
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