Re: [SLUG] wormy thoughts

From: SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 10:03:10 EST


On Thursday 01 November 2001 04:54 pm, Bill wrote:
> "The Worm That Wouldn't Leave"
>
> This is beginning to sound like a badly dubbed "B" movie.
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO65058,00.html
>
> This is a case study of the newest infestation (nimda.e) from a reasonably
> "upenatem" sysad. Read the whole story ... don't jump to the end. But once
> you've gotten to the end, chew on it for a while.
>
> Sometimes Windows users (rightly!) accuse Linux users of being fanatics.
> Sometimes we are tempted to hand them a mirror.
>
> Bill

The real scare thought though to me was that the system administrators
disable the ability of machines that could not be affected by the virus to
access the internet.

Frank



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