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42-548: When Windows XP was originally shipped in October 2001, it included a limited firewall called "Internet Connection Firewall". It was disabled by default due to concerns with backward compatibility, and the configuration screens were buried away in network configuration screens that many users never looked at. As a result, it was rarely used. In mid-2003, the Blaster worm attacked a large number of Windows machines, taking advantage of flaws in

84-523: A certain port. Filtering by ISPs and widespread publicity about the worm curbed the spread of Blaster. In September 2003, Jeffrey Lee Parson, an 18-year-old from Hopkins, Minnesota , was indicted for creating the B variant of the Blaster worm; he admitted responsibility and was sentenced to an 18-month prison term in January 2005. The author of the original A variant remains unknown. According to court papers,

126-476: A computer on the network connects to a website. This security log is not enabled by default; the administrator must enable it. Windows Firewall can be controlled/configured through a COM object-oriented API, scriptable through the netsh command, through the GUI administration tool or centrally through group policies . All features are available regardless of how it is configured. In the unreleased Windows Neptune ,

168-410: A disability, and 6.9% of persons under age 65 years, did not have health insurance. The median household income (in 2021 dollars), 2017-2021 was $ 60,824. The per capita income in past 12 months (in 2021 dollars), 2017-2021 was $ 40,770.11.8% of people lived in poverty. As of the census of 2010, there were 17,591 people, 8,366 households, and 3,975 families residing in the city. The population density

210-399: A much lower homeownership rate than neighboring communities. The city's 39 percent homeownership rate is 22 percentage points less than the 61 percent of St. Louis Park, which has the next lowest rate among Hopkins’ neighbors. Other west metro communities fall in the mid-70 percent range. Housing also tends to be more affordable than most west metro communities. Hopkins’ $ 225,200 median value

252-490: A network connection until several seconds after the connection itself was created, thereby creating a window of vulnerability. A number of additions were made to Group Policy , so that Windows system administrators could configure the Windows Firewall product on a company-wide level. XP's Windows Firewall cannot block outbound connections; it is only capable of blocking inbound ones. Windows Firewall turned out to be one of

294-486: A petition signed by 41 residents, asking that a separate village be formed from unincorporated portions of then- Minnetonka and Richfield Townships. Following an election, the community was then incorporated as the Village of West Minneapolis with a population of 1,105. The original village consisted of about three-square miles, and it has been enlarged by annexation to its present size of about four-square miles. In 1928,

336-562: A similar effect. Months later, the Sasser worm surfaced, which caused a similar message to appear. Hopkins, Minnesota Hopkins is a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota , United States, located west of Minneapolis . The population was 19,079 at the 2020 census . The city is four square miles in size and is surrounded by the larger suburban communities of Minnetonka , Saint Louis Park , and Edina . The city's main street

378-468: Is the chief administrator of the City of Hopkins. The Hopkins City Council appoints the city manager for an indefinite period and may remove the manager at any time. The charter specifies just two other administrative positions by name. It requires the city to have a clerk, who is subordinate to the city manager, and allows for, but doesn't require, a city attorney to advise the council on legal matters. However,

420-465: Is the lowest among its neighbors. The median housing value for St. Louis Park, which is next lowest, is 6.75 percent higher at $ 240,400. Hopkins’ government structure is set by its city charter. Hennepin County district court judges appointed the first Hopkins Charter Commission on February 8, 1946, in order to create a proposed charter that would be voted on. The commission submitted the proposed charter to

462-677: The Great Depression of the 1930s. A date of July 21 was chosen to hold the event to coincide with the peak of raspberry-picking season. The festival now takes place the third weekend in July every year. The Raspberry Festival is overseen by a board of directors supported by many additional volunteers and local civic organizations each year. Since its inception, it has evolved into a dynamic community celebration with activities including music, sporting events, royalty coronations, craft fair, and parade. The main street of Hopkins, from 8th to 11th avenues,

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504-467: The RPC Windows service. Several months later, the Sasser worm did something similar. The ongoing prevalence of these worms through 2004 resulted in unpatched machines being infected within a matter of minutes. Because of these incidents, as well as other criticisms that Microsoft was not being active in protecting customers from threats, Microsoft decided to significantly improve both the functionality and

546-530: The Southwest LRT . There will be stations at Shady Oak Road , Downtown Hopkins , and at Blake Road . As of the census of 2020, there were 19,079 people, and 9,220 households residing in the city. The population density was 4,696.9 inhabitants per square mile (1,813.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 64.2% White, 21.5% African American, 0.1% Native American, 7.1% Asian, 5.4% from two or more races, and 8.8% Hispanic or Latino. The average household size

588-482: The Village Council on November 4, 1947. Voters approved the charter December 2, 1947. The charter has been amended numerous times since then, most recently in October 2012. The charter specifies that Hopkins use a council-manager plan . The council controls city administration but does so exclusively through the city manager . The charter contains an “interference with administration” clause that expressly forbids

630-533: The age of 18 living with them, 31.4% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 54.5% were non-families. 42.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.03 and the average family size was 2.85. 19.6% of the population were under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 37.2% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

672-428: The age of 18 living with them, 31.4% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 52.5% were non-families. 43.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.07 and the average family size was 2.93. The median age in

714-497: The charter specifies that the city manager can create city departments and divisions and alter them when necessary. Hopkins has seven departments, each with a department head that reports to the city manager. The departments are: The first non-indigenous settlers in the Hopkins area arrived in 1852 as land around the growing Minneapolis–Saint Paul area was opening up and being explored by members stationed at Fort Snelling . However,

756-403: The city was 34.4 years. 21.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 34.3% were from 25 to 44; 23.4% were from 45 to 64; and 12.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.6% male and 52.4% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 17,145 people, 8,224 households and 3,741 families residing in the city. The population density

798-423: The council from telling the city manager whom to hire or preventing the city manager from using his or her judgment to make administrative appointments. It also prohibits the council from issuing orders to any of the city manager's subordinates. The council is made up of the mayor and four council members elected at-large . The mayor serves a two-year term in office. Council members have four-year terms—with two of

840-495: The firewall was introduced. It is similar to the one found in Windows XP. Windows Firewall was first introduced as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Every type of network connection, whether it is wired, wireless, VPN, or even FireWire, has the firewall enabled by default, with some built-in exceptions to allow connections from machines on the local network. It also fixed a problem whereby the firewall policies would not be enabled on

882-499: The following registry entry so that it is launched every time Windows starts: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ windows auto update=msblast.exe Although the worm can only spread on systems running Windows 2000 or Windows XP , it can cause instability in the RPC service on systems running other versions of Windows NT , including Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition . In particular,

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924-554: The interface of Windows XP's built-in firewall, rebrand it as Windows Firewall, and switched it on by default since Windows XP SP2. One of three profiles is activated automatically for each network interface: Security log capabilities are included, which can record IP addresses and other data relating to connections originating from the home or office network or the Internet. It can record both dropped packets and successful connections. This can be used, for instance, to track every time

966-427: The name of the village was changed to Hopkins after Harley H. Hopkins, who was among its first homesteaders and was the community's first postmaster . Mr. Hopkins allowed the town to build the train depot on his land (now The Depot Coffee House ) with the agreement that the train station would say "Hopkins" on it. People getting off the train assumed the name of the town was Hopkins and it stuck. On January 1, 1948,

1008-536: The north and south. One of these creeks includes Minnehaha Creek . The north branch of Nine Mile Creek has its headwaters in Hopkins at the intersection of 13th Avenue South and Excelsior Boulevard. The southern end of Hopkins is adjacent to main line of the Twin Cities and Western Railroad . Two main highways, U.S. Route 169 and Minnesota State Highway 7 , service the Hopkin's area. Hopkins will have three stations on

1050-726: The original Blaster was created after security researchers from the Chinese group Xfocus reverse engineered the original Microsoft patch that allowed for execution of the attack. The worm spreads by exploiting a buffer overflow discovered by the Polish security research group Last Stage of Delirium in the DCOM RPC service on the affected operating systems, for which a patch had been released one month earlier in MS03-026 and later in MS03-039. This allowed

1092-717: The roots of the town begin in 1887 with the building of the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company , later called Minneapolis-Moline , to make farm equipment. At the time, Minneapolis Moline employed most of the Hopkins residents. In 1887, the West Minneapolis Land Company was founded and formed to build housing for the Minneapolis Moline factory workers. In 1893, residents of Hopkins sent the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners

1134-474: The seats on the ballot in one election and the other two seats up in the following election. Regular elections take place in odd years. The mayor votes on all motions before the council like the council members. The position is also the head of the city for ceremonial purposes, serving legal processes and martial law. The mayor is paid $ 6,000 per year and council members are paid $ 4,600 per year. The current salaries were set in 1998. Source: The city manager

1176-423: The system date is after August 15 and before December 31 and after the 15th day of other months, thereby creating a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against the site. The damage to Microsoft was minimal as the site targeted was windowsupdate.com, rather than windowsupdate.microsoft.com, to which the former was redirected. Microsoft temporarily shut down the targeted site to minimize potential effects from

1218-529: The two most significant reasons (the other being DCOM activation security) that many corporations did not upgrade to Service Pack 2 in a timely fashion. Around the time of SP2's release, a number of Internet sites were reporting significant application compatibility issues, though the majority of those ended up being nothing more than ports that needed to be opened on the firewall so that components of distributed systems (typically backup and antivirus solutions) could communicate. Windows Firewall added IPv6 , which

1260-461: The village became the city of Hopkins, upon adoption of a council–city manager charter. Hopkins was the headquarters of Minneapolis-Moline , which was a large manufacturer of tractors and agricultural equipment in the United States until the 1960s. The Hopkins Raspberry Festival is an annual event in Hopkins. The Hopkins Raspberry Festival was founded in 1935 as a way to boost business during

1302-659: The worm does not spread in Windows Server 2003 because Windows Server 2003 was compiled with the /GS switch, which detected the buffer overflow and shut the RPCSS process down. When infection occurs, the buffer overflow causes the RPC service to crash, leading Windows to display the following message and then automatically reboot, usually after 60 seconds. System Shutdown: This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown

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1344-428: The worm to spread without users opening attachments simply by spamming itself to large numbers of random IP addresses. Four versions have been detected in the wild. These are the most well-known exploits of the original flaw in RPC, but there were in fact another 12 different vulnerabilities that did not see as much media attention. The worm was programmed to start a SYN flood against port 80 of windowsupdate.com if

1386-419: The worm. The worm's executable, MSBlast.exe, contains two messages. The first reads: I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!! This message gave the worm the alternative name of Lovesan. The second reads: billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!! This is a message to Bill Gates , the co-founder of Microsoft and the target of the worm. The worm also creates

1428-437: Was 2.02, and 22% of persons aged 5 years+, 2017-2021 spoke a language other than English spoken at home. 94.2% of people aged 25 years+, 2017-2021 had a high school graduate or higher. 47.5% of persons aged 25 years+, 2017-2021 had a bachelor's degree or higher. 72.5% population age 16 years+, 2017-2021 were in civilian labor force, compared to 66.1% of all females aged 16 years+. 9.5% of people under age 65 years, 2017-2020 had

1470-489: Was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.5 males. The median household income was $ 39,203 and the median family income was $ 50,359. Males had a median income of $ 37,541 versus $ 30,687 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 26,759. About 8.1% of families and 9.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including 12.3% of those under age 18 and 6.7% of those age 65 or over. Hopkins has

1512-563: Was 4,205.9 inhabitants per square mile (1,623.9/km ). There were 8,390 housing units at an average density of 2,058.2 pe square mile (794.0/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 82.61% White , 5.19% African American , 0.78% Native American , 5.92% Asian , 0.09% Pacific Islander , 2.58% from other races , and 2.82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.54% of the population. 23.9% were of German , 12.4% Norwegian , 7.4% Irish and 7.1% Swedish ancestry. There were 8,224 households, of which 22.7% had children under

1554-447: Was 4,311.5 inhabitants per square mile (1,664.7/km ). There were 8,987 housing units at an average density of 2,202.7 per square mile (850.5/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 70.4% White , 13.5% African American , 0.6% Native American , 8.5% Asian , 3.4% from other races , and 3.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.9% of the population. There were 8,366 households, of which 24.9% had children under

1596-468: Was a computer worm that spread on computers running operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000 during August 2003. The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003. Once a network (such as a company or university) was infected, it spread more quickly within the network because firewalls typically did not prevent internal machines from using

1638-609: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2022 as the Hopkins Commercial Historic District . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.11 square miles (10.64 km ), of which 4.08 square miles (10.57 km ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km ) is water. There are several small ponds on the western side of Hopkins, and creeks to

1680-571: Was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Time before shutdown: hours:minutes:seconds Message: Windows must now restart because the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service terminated unexpectedly. This was the first indication many users had an infection; it often occurred a few minutes after every startup on compromised machines. A simple resolution to stop countdown is to run the "shutdown /a" command, causing some side effects such as an empty (without users) Welcome Screen. The Welchia worm had

1722-678: Was not supported by its predecessor, Internet Connection Firewall. Windows Vista improved the firewall to address a number of concerns around the flexibility of Windows Firewall in a corporate environment: Windows Server 2008 contains the same firewall as Windows Vista. The firewall in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 contains some improvements, such as multiple active profiles. Changes to this component in Windows 10 are: Blaster (computer worm) As Lovsan As MSBLAST Blaster (also known as Lovsan , Lovesan , or MSBlast )

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1764-992: Was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places in January 2022 as the Hopkins Commercial Historic District . The designation was revealed during a ceremony in April 2022. The Hopkins School District serves all or parts of seven Minneapolis west suburban communities: Hopkins, Minnetonka , Golden Valley , Plymouth , Edina , Eden Prairie , and Saint Louis Park . Approximately 8,100 students attend seven elementary schools ( K – fifth grade ), two middle schools ( 6th – 8th grade ), and one high school ( 9th – 12th grade ). Some students attend public schools in other school districts chosen by their families under Minnesota's open enrollment statute, as some students from outside Hopkins school district enroll in Hopkins schools on that basis. There are two private schools in Hopkins: Mystery Science Theater 3000

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