How long was this? A short week for SP2…
A week or two after the public release of SP2 for Windows XP, we already have a hotfix:
It didn’t took too long for Microsoft.
The flawed file is TCPIP.SYS. I’ve already wrote on Scoble’s blog comments about this file. After SP2, it has a hardcoded limitation of maximum 10 outgoing half-open connections. There were people on the net who hexedited the file and posted the results on public websites. These computers cannot be patched, as Raymond Chen explained. For a better deal on Kazaa, the people who patched their systems may compromise their data and may be more prone to trojan replication, i.e., they might compromise the data of their network neighbours.