Article ID: 841375
Article Last Modified on 11/16/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (Windows)
- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
INTRODUCTION
When you install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (also known as MSDE 2000) on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), a message is logged in the application event log. The message states that the instance of SQL Server or the instance of SQL Server Desktop Engine is vulnerable to virus attacks.
You may notice this behavior when you perform one of the following tasks:
- You install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP2 or an earlier version of SQL Server 2000 SP2.
- You install Microsoft MSDE 2000 SP2 or an earlier version of SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000.
- You apply the Windows XP SP2 to a computer that already has an instance of SQL Server 2000 SP2 or earlier or that is running SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 SP2 or earlier.
MORE INFORMATION
When you install SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 on a computer that is running Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP2 logs an Information event that is similar to the following in the application log:
To help protect your computer, you must install the latest SQL Server 2000 or the latest SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 service pack.
For additional information about how to obtain latest service pack for SQL Server 2000, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
290211 How to obtain the latest SQL Server 2000 service pack
REFERENCES
For information about the SQL Server 2000 Security Tools, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
For additional information about the SQL Server tools, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
814372 Overview of the SQL 2000 Critical Update Wizard
814461 SQL Server 2000 SQL Check utility
For information about finding and fixing Slammer vulnerabilities, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Additional query words: Springboard pre slammer pre-slammer version
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