Due to reports (here, here and here) of hackers starting to probe ports 135, 139, or 445 for a new worm to exploit this Windows vulnerability, I’ve had to do some late night patchin’ at work. Although the above ports are not open on our border routers, I thought it would be wise to take the “better-safe-than-sorry” approach and do some emergency patching to pretty much ALL of our servers. This patch does require a reboot and when I rebooted our FTP server, it didn’t come back up. I forgot that it has a stupid warning message in the BIOS where you have to hit F1 to continue. So I had to drive 30 minutes from home to work to hit one stupid key on a keyboard. Damn, I really need to investigate KVM over IP. By the way, I’ve already started getting scans on my home firewall on ports 445 and 135, so patch now or be sorry later.