>Today at 3:09PM EDT, I rcvd a nice direct email from MS (perhaps because I'm an MSDN subscriber?) warning me of Blaster and suggesting I should update with MS03-026 if I hadn't already.
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>Um, a little late, isn't it? I deployed the patch a couple weeks ago to all my servers and workstations...
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>I guess they're on the right track with their new "security emphasis" anyway, as I haven't ever received such a direct MS-patch email before, that I recall. Maybe a little sooner next time would be nice, though <g>

Hi Bruce,

You can subscribe to the security updates newsletter, as well as a bunch of others at https://register.microsoft.com/regsys/pic.asp?sec=0. I got a whole lot of the blaster warning emails, I assume because I'm subscribed to quite a few newsletters. The "Microsoft Security Notification Service" newsletter is the one that warns you "a little sooner" as you suggested.

Of course we heard about the Ms02-026 problem weeks ago but there wasn't an exploit until recently. Now that so many computers are ridden with the worm, Microsoft is doing their part to get the word out as to how to combat the problem.

Well, I thought I'd post the newsletters link in case anyone else would like to sign up for some of them.