Re: Microsoft.com attack?

[Dan Armstrong <dan () beanfield com>]

I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to make a patch so poorly written, it would
actually cause all patched machines to attack the mothership.

:-)



Adam Maloney wrote:

> Yeah, seeing the same here - it's been flaky for us for the last 30
> minutes while we've been trying it.
>
> I wonder if it's related to this messages.zip / admin@ thing that's all
> over the place today.
>
> I was just thinking the other day, wouldn't it be funny if there was a
> worm that had infected machines attack windowsupdate.microsoft.com so you
> couldn't patch? :)  I haven't confirmed that this is the problem, but it
> seems likely.
>
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
>
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Jason Frisvold wrote:
>
> > Anyone aware of an attack on www.microsoft.com?  I had a customer
> > machine that was attacking it, looks like either a bug in Microsoft's
> > SP4 (coincidentally this started the day after this was installed) or
> > there's some new(?) worm of some sort causing this ??
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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