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Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today
From: Dave Temkin <dave () ordinaryworld com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:37:25 -0500 (EST)
: They rate of it is quite surprising. By the description, the trick / : method of infection does not seem all that different than past worms : viri. Makes me wonder how many people in a room would reach intotheir: purse/pocket on hearing, "Wallet inspector" Every single person that still opens these damn attachments! :-(IN WINDOWS!
So? Had the virii been an application compiled for RedHat and everyone ran RedHat instead of Windows and they downloaded it using Evolution and double clicked on it, it would suddenly be RH's fault instead of MIcrosoft's? Or is it sendmail's fault because it was listening on port 25 and allowed the worm to connect to it? Newsflash: Even those using Netscape Mail, Lotus Notes, etc. on the PC were still potentially infected due to the nesting of the virii. The worm was not spread through any vulnerability in the operating system, unlike NIMDA/SQLSlammer/etc. This worm was propogated through pure user stupidity, and that'll follow any operating system that Dell/Gateway pre-installs for them. If everyone wants to flame MS, at least do it in a way that doesn't show your own ignorance. -Dave
Current thread:
- Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today Dave Temkin (Jan 28)
- Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today Martin Hepworth (Jan 28)
- Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today james (Jan 28)
- Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today Patrick W . Gilmore (Jan 28)
- Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 28)
- OT: Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today Scott Weeks (Jan 28)
- Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today Alexei Roudnev (Jan 28)
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- Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today Dave Temkin (Jan 28)