Re: A code red that could bring down the net?

[Sven van ´t Veer <sven () vip br>]

Although I agree on the funny part, I would suppose that M$ has patched 
up it´s own servers ..

> Actually, a rather nasty thing to do, would have been to set the worm up
> to attack www.microsoft.com. If my guess is right, that site uses the same
> pipe as support.microsoft.com or windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Had the
> person done this, it would have effectly used microsoft's own bug against
> it, and would have caused a big problem: how are the people supposed to
> obtain the patch if the site holding the patch gets hosed? It's a scarry
> thought, but funny one: A DDOS by microsoft's own software against itself.
>
> - Lynn