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Re: [Vmyths.com ALERT] Hysteria over ''Sasser'' worm
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 08:49:35 -0500 (CDT)
Forwarded from: T <tee () T72 org> Rob scribbled:
http://Vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=241&page=4 for details.) In the latest example, an AFP newswire revealed "Sampo, Finland's third largest bank, closed its 130 branch offices across the country to prevent the Sasser Internet worm from infecting its systems... 'We decided to close our offices as a precaution, since we knew that our virus protection hadn't been updated,' Sampo spokesman Hannu Vuola [said]." In other words, Finland's third-largest bank voluntarily made itself Finland's SMALLEST bank -- because they didn't trust their "antivirus solution" to protect them in a time of crisis.
I've not read AFP newswire story but MTV3 news (Finnish TV channel) reported that Sampo actually got infected. As we all know it can sometimes be difficult to find the piece of truth from news stories but in this case I find it hard to believe that Sampo would have closed their branch offices as a "precautionary measure". Peace, --T -- echo https://www.T72.org/pgp/tee.asc | perl -ne 'map{print STDERR;select$T,$7,$2,.072}split//' 27C9 469D 213F 5C18 7D60 8378 E64E 474A FE75 4614 _________________________________________ ISN mailing list Sponsored by: OSVDB.org
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