New Virus Threat

[Kneale Brownson]

At 11:37 AM 09/19/2001 -0400, Elliott Potter wrote:


>On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:38:18 -0400, Swann, Benjamin R.  (BSWANN) wrote:
>
> >       A new virus discovered today is currently spreading across the
> >  internet and now has a "High Threat", High Distribution" assessment. It's
> >  name is: W32.Nimda.A at mm
>
>This is the same one that slammed my ISP's connection yesterday.  Friggin'
>Microsoft ... now I've got a 4000 line error log on my web server full of
>dumbass buffer overflow attempts.  Glad I don't use IIS (or Windows for that
>matter).
>--


The really sad part of this is that if the server operator had employed 
downloadable patches Microsoft has been providing for quite some time, it 
wouldn't have had the problems it did.  In this era it only makes sense to 
"compute safely" by using every every available protection the software 
suppliers offer.  Individuals have plenty of free antivirus programs 
available for personal computers too.
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