[Gllug] Code Red worm sleeps?

[Jake Jellinek]

What is amazing is how the whole thing turns itself into a Microsoft saves 
the Internet story:

"Millions of computer systems appeared well prepared, because of a free 
software patch from Microsoft. "

Thanks Microsoft, you saved us all.

Jake.

--On 01 August 2001 Gordon Joly wrote with the subject "[Gllug] Code Red 
worm sleeps?":

>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1466000/1466588.stm
>
> <quot>
>
> The Code Red worm computer bug has had no immediately visible effect on
> the internet, security experts say.
>
> </quot>
>
> The very same security experts who predicting doom and gloom 72 hours ago?
>
> And yes it is Internet (shame that the BBC cannot spell). There is only
> on Internet hence a capital "I"
>
> But the BBC also believed that the millennium began on 2000-01-01 rather
> than 2001-01-01... I think they took the majority view rather than what
> the nice people who work at Greenwich said..... more dumbing down?
>
> Gordo
> --
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