Re: FN-FORUM: OT - Poll: Who got hit by the worm?

date posted 12th August 2003 19:00

I had a couple of friends phoning me frantically last night... Guessed it
was this exploit - I was a bit confused as neither of them use the internet
very much...

All gone now though.

btw there is a story up on slashdot about it -
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/1326237&mode=thread&tid=185&tid=
190&tid=201

James


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Hazlewood" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: OT - Poll: Who got hit by the worm?


>
> Dave Grey wrote:
> > Who managed to get hit by ye olde worm?
>
> This is where all the smug Linux admins pop their heads out of their
> racks and grin smugly at all the poor Windows admins...
>
> Seriously though, no one should have any excuses given that this 'ploit
> has been in the wild for a month. If a server is vulnerable it'd have
> to be down to lasiness or busyness...
>
>
>
> George
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