Instead of the countless warnings about Code Red I,II and III .. why don’t MS or Security portals release another peace-maker worm that spreads the same way like Code Red with a difference that it holds the IIS batch as payload ?? Welcome to Worms War age :cool: // RM

Your situation sounds familiar to me! you see you are uploading tons of data while you can't figure why!? even if you disable all your LAN connections you will notice that it won't stop!! Try it. If you got this situation, then one of the spamers is using your server for emails relying, hence the continuous sending of data won't stop. Relaying can be disabled by 2 methods.. 1- disable the SMTP service (if you don’t have exchange) 2- Configure your exchange server to stop relaying Check this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-037.asp Hope that helps // RM

There won't be anything .. they just spreading fear and over-reacting .. I used a eeye checker tool and scanned thousands of IPs to see how vulnerable the servers are? Guess what, only 2 severs were not patched!! Tons of alerts and reports .. but if you checked the C|net latest reports you will notice that the *experts* are disappointed because the worm did not cause the harm they were expecting! ;P // RM

I don't think that you can find any docs any time soon. Notice the release date .. they wanted to push it to fix the time bomb just few hours before it hits .. Also, some MS guys said that the SP2 is not fully tested !! I think that they will push a new -full and documented- update some time later .. I can't see anything wrong in releasing patch for beta products .. remember that MS encourages programmers to start working with the new framework with the new IDE .. and the time bomb definitely interrupts their plans .. // Rafik

Microsoft releases today, VS.NET SP2 -don't ask me about SP1 !?- that fixes several bugs in current VS.NET beta 2 .. Including the 31st july time bomb ... To download load it, you have single choice (so far) .. use the IDE Help\Check updates menu.. it is a bit slow but works .. Enjoy:cool: // Rafik

I think that COM will lose some of its glory in .NET world .. I tried to think of those situations where i will go back and implement *classical* COM and then deploy it in .NET application: 1- For real-time application when i need ultra-fast execution 2- Provide a means to deal with the legacy code that i am not willing to port to .NET Developers who seek performance will find themselves working with ATL, STL, WTL ..(not MFC of course)so, i expect a long life for those template-based libraries :suss: Well, you are right, people will take time to move to .NET .. but learning COM\ATL takes time too and you need to think which is better for you: studying .NET stuff which needs a lot of time to master or COM\ATL now and then go for .NET later when it is released !? Rafik

One fancy feature of the new redesign of MSDN web site is the Movable Toolboxes (they like this name). You can rearrange\collapse any of the items of the right column; try it!! It is really cool. I think that this feature specially fits at CP too .. I prefer to have the news sub column to appear directly below the lounge and collapsing the rest. So, why don't you Chris continue your innovations at CP and implement this cool feature too? :suss: // Rafik

Well, Egypt too .... we have a large army of developers !! It seems to me that Africa is always forgotten when you mention technology .. //Rafik